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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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 have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
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
Making Progress & English teachers moonlighting as porn stars
The semester is almost over. I’ve gotten caught up in all of my grading, other than the finals which I’ve yet to give. The next two weeks are going to be busy. I’ve rescheduled my classes into individual meetings with students to have 15 minute oral final exams at Starbucks. I’ve always had the 15-20 minute interview with students, but previously have done it in the classroom. This time it’s at starbucks. A colleague of mine has done this and found that students enjoyed it. The starbucks atmosphere also adds some authenticity at least situational context-wise. I’ve also scheduled all 3 sections of freshmen English to meet tomorrow night at 5:30 for the written exam. It’ll be nice to get it over all at once and in a room that is better suited to testing than our classrooms.
Tomorrow I will also start a 10 week Korean language course that runs Monday through Friday 9am to 1pm. Obviously for the two weeks of final exams I’m not going to have too much free time, but it will be worth it. I took a course there last year and am looking forward to improving my language skills over the winter.
Since I am basically caught up on everything, this weekend I managed to get a little work done on a board game I started last vacation. I plan on having it completed by the end of the month. I also started another chapter in the book I am writing. Though I still haven’t finished the listening chapter. Overall it feels like I am making progress in a number of areas and I am satisfied.
Since I won’t be teaching for again until March 2nd, I suspect that blogging will be light until then. I am reading a book and am planning on writing a review of it once I finish it so there will definitely be some posting, just not much.
In other news you may be interested in reading about English teachers moonlighting as porn stars.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Dec 3, 2006 at 07:23 PM
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