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No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
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 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
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
JALTCALL 2007 - Conference Report
Aaron has posted a review of the JALTCALL 2007 - Conference Report. Go give it a read. Aaron doesn’t blog often, but when he does it is always worth reading.
Just a reminder that guest entry submissions are always welcome here. If you attend a conference, write a review. If you have some thoughts on current issues in ELT, a great lesson plan or comments on a journal you read, please write something here. I think that this is a great idea for people who would like to post thier thougths, but don’t want to maintain a blog or if you have a blog, but it’s not ELT centred.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Jun 4, 2007 at 09:39 AM
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Aaron wrote 37 words on Monday Jun 4, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Hey EFL Geek....I ran into a guy named Martin who said he knew you and had done some kind of Japanese/Korean exchange project with you online.
Does Korea have a CALL conference? If so, when is it?
Sean. wrote 67 words on Monday Jun 4, 2007 at 10:09 AM
Aaron,
Yeah Martin is a great guy we did an exchange project about 2 years back. It was pretty good, but the biggest difficulty we had was the timing with Korean and Japanese semesters.
There was a Call conference last November that I presented at, but the organizer (a great guy) had a falling out with KOTESOL so I’m not sure when the next one will be.
Chilli wrote 11 words on Wednesday Jun 6, 2007 at 11:19 AM
Hi! This is the first time to visit your blog page.
Sean. wrote 19 words on Wednesday Jun 6, 2007 at 01:15 PM
Chilli,
Glad to have you here. Hope you find my blog useful and feel free to comment any time.