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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

"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

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