Random Quote
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
EFL Pedophile
I haven’t been writing about this, but if you teach in Korea, Thailand or live in Canada you have no doubt heard about the EFL teacher Christopher Paul Neil (wikipedia - hat tip to Joe Seoul Man) who has allegedly molested boys as young as six in several Asian countries. Neil has taught English in Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries.
For background information check out three threads by the Marmot here,, here and here and be sure to follow links and read the comments.
There are also several threads on Daves Cafe Korea forums where Neils id is confirmed to have been Peter Jackson. See these threads one, two, three, four and five.
Other bloggers to check out include The View from the Fence and ROK Drop.
The CBC has also run a long piece that talks about the need for regulation of ESL teachers. Dave Sperling comes on near the end and speaks as well. Go here and watch the video. If anyone finds it on youtube let me know so I can embed it here.




