Random Quote
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Intensive vs Extensive reading
I was considering writing a post about extensive reading sometime in November but while surfing for information to support my arguments I came across two posts by Mark of Tosuo.com. I’ve been reading Mark’s blog for a few months now, but these posts were written before I started reading.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Oct 26, 2006 at 05:15 PM
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강미 wrote 15 words on Thursday Oct 26, 2006 at 06:48 PM
I’d like to do extensive reading for Korean study, but the problem is finding content.
Sean. wrote 35 words on Thursday Oct 26, 2006 at 07:00 PM
Don’t I know it. I wish there were graded readers available in Korean. I make do with reading what I can and often going in spurts before giving up because it is too damn difficult.
Mark wrote 14 words on Thursday Oct 26, 2006 at 07:44 PM
I can’t even find extensive readers for Chinese learners. Korean must really be hopeless.
Sean. wrote 35 words on Thursday Oct 26, 2006 at 07:54 PM
Mark,
The teachers at Sogang University (the best Korean language program IMO) are interested in graded readers but cannot get a budget for it. At least that is what I heard from a reliable resource.