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To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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'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
"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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
English Villages a failure
English villages across Korea are losing money and have failed in their purpose. I’m not surprised. Read the whole story at the Joongang Daily.
Regional governments invested heavily in the villages without much consideration for educational demand.
As a result, half of them are concentrated in the Seoul metropolitan area and some are only a two to three minutes’ drive from each other.
Most of them offer short-term programs lasting only a few days, which means they cannot satisfy the original purpose of complementing English education at schools and substituting costly English learning programs abroad.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Sep 7, 2008 at 05:21 PM
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