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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.
---- Arnold Lobel
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
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
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
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
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
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
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
How many hours are you contracted
How many hours are you contracted for? There’s a poll so if you’re reading in RSS, come on down and vote. I know it’s vacation season for many public school and university teachers so you should vote for how many hours you are contracted to teach during the semester. If you do over time or have something else to say, please leave a comment.
looking forward to your responses.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jul 3, 2008 at 06:33 PM
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