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

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

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

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

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

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

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

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

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

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

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

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

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

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

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

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

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 Sunday May 27 2007

Guest Author wanted

Did you attend this conference this weekend? If you did and would like to review your experience there please write a guest entry.

I was unable to attend and would like to hear a review of what went down.

update
There is a confirmed guest author for this coming soon. They are in the middle of writing it and will post soon. I’m looking forward to it. Additionally I have another friend, previously mentioned, who is undertaking a distance M.A. and will also be posting soon. Exciting things happening here at my little spot on the internet.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday May 27, 2007 at 12:05 PM
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