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

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

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

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

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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---- Steve Dembo

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

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

"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

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 Tuesday October 23 2007

kids and the internet


hat tip to Teach 42 - click image for full size.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Oct 23, 2007 at 06:08 PM
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