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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
English Teacher: The Movie
English Teacher: The Movie - I’ve known about this movie for a few years since the star is a close friend. The blond guy in the trailer is probably my best friend in Korea. The ironic thing is, in the movie he’s drinking smoking and leading a life of debauchery but that is pretty much the opposite of his real life. Anyhow my friend has told me for years while waiting for the post production to finish that I shouldn’t watch it - still I want to see it. Below is a summary and a link to the trailer.
Patrick, a young American college grad, journeys to Seoul, South Korea to teach English. Jeff, a friend-of-a-friend, puts him up in his filthy, little apartment and finds him a job teaching Yoon Hee, a university student from a prosperous family. There is an easy chemistry between them, and they soon fall in love. Soon after, Patrick discovers Seoul’s night life. He is enticed by the seemingly endless possibilities and eventually loses control. Sex and drugs begin to consume him, and he is robbed of all his money. Yoon Hee becomes pregnant. Patrick suggests an abortion. She is horrified and breaks up with him. Her father finds out, charges Patrick with rape, and sends Yoon Hee to an obscure village. Patrick realizes that he has made a terrible mistake. He must win Yoon Hee back and flee the country with her before it’s too late. But first, he has to recover his money from Klaus to pay for their flight to America. Desperate situations require desperate actions. In a world without rules, Patrick must make his own.
You can check out some pics from the movie and a trailer here. hat tip to The Lost Nomad.





Cameron Smith wrote 43 words on Monday Dec 18, 2006 at 03:35 AM
Hi ............I watched the trailer ans it is pretty intense. It could be a real eye opener and mabe it shold be mandatory for all new ESL teachers to view, just my own personal thoughts from the little the trailer shows. Take care...Dad.
Mark wrote 17 words on Sunday Dec 31, 2006 at 07:38 PM
Is it really like that in Korea? I thought the trailer was just way over the top.
Sean. wrote 35 words on Sunday Dec 31, 2006 at 07:50 PM
Mark,
Not really like that. At least not among my friends and colleagues, including the blond star. Anyhow, just like anywhere, I’m sure that there are people who live like that and others who don’t.
Jeff wrote 6 words on Sunday Jan 21, 2007 at 05:31 PM
The trailer’s at http://www.theenglishteachermovie.com looks interesting.
Christian wrote 15 words on Sunday Jan 21, 2007 at 05:33 PM
It’s a movie, since when does a movie have to be anything like real life?
Christian wrote 12 words on Sunday Jan 21, 2007 at 05:36 PM
Trailer looks cool. How can I see it? Anyone seen it here?