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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.
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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
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I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
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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.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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The least of learning is done in the classrooms
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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 Monday July 16 2007

Finished

I’ve finished teaching for summer semester. All lessons went better than expected and overall I’m very satisfied with this course. Tomorrow is a holiday and then Wednesday is the final exam so a little bit of grading and then I will be finished until the last week of August. There will probably be very few entries between now and then, but don’t give up on me, I’ll be back.

Just so everyone knows, I’m still looking for guest authors either as a one off entry or a semi-regular contributor. You can write on anything you want as long as it is somewhat related to linguistics, teaching, language, or language learning.

Finally I’ve just finished the upgrade to EE 1.6 and all went smoothly. I also added the new social bookmarking module. The bookmarks will only be available on the permalink/comments page. The control panel for the module is a little buggy right now so I can only have the default two social sites, but once it’s fixed will add a few more. Will complete the forum upgrade probably tomorrow, right now I’m off to relax with some coffee and DVDs.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Jul 16, 2007 at 02:07 PM
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