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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
EFL Teacher Murdered
English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, from Brandon, near Coventry, was found dead on Monday in the city of Ichikawa, east of Tokyo.
Police have issued an arrest warrant and launched a nationwide hunt for the Japanese man who lived alone in the apartment where her body was found on the balcony.
hat tip to The Marmot





Ron wrote 183 words on Thursday Mar 29, 2007 at 10:45 AM
Japanese people’s reaction to this mishap came up to my reactions. Just as was expected, Japanese people didn’t fail to go into action at many websites in order to distort the true nature of the murder case. Is the kernel of a question Lindsay Ann Hawker’s illegal private lessons? Any victimized person himself/herself is more responsible for his/her own death than a murderer just because of illegal tutorage outside of an employed English school? The core of the case is that she had been stalked and was brutally murdered by a man. Japanese people should not try to attract public gaze at something else. They’d better express their condolences to the deceased, help the Japanese authorities to cooperate with the British authorities in handling this murder case. They should know their distortion of the matter will do no good to anything, even to their UJP (Ultra Japan Pride). Do you remember when an American Lucie Blackman was killed by a Japanese man in Japan? At that time, the Japanese mass media concentrated only on her being a bar hostess and her mental anxiety.
Sean. wrote 16 words on Thursday Mar 29, 2007 at 06:56 PM
Thanks for the additional information. I hope that you will continue to visit and leave comments.
Dave wrote 74 words on Friday Mar 30, 2007 at 10:33 AM
My condolances obviously go out to the girl’s family and friends, although I do believe there is more to this story than meets the eye initially. I’ve posted an article on my blog at http://soldave.thedeepstop.com about a couple of the strange things in this case which the western media seems to be overlooking at the moment.
I think over the next week or 2 we will find out a little more about this story…