Random Quote
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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 have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
English Language Textbooks
Scott Sommers comments briefly on Chinese students using English language text books for content courses such as biology, engineering etc. His post was inspired by a longer and more detailed post by Michael Turton. I have also noticed the same thing here in Korea and have wondered why English language texts are so common when actual English skills are low. I may conduct an informal survey of my own to see if I get similar results to Scott and Michael.




