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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
"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
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
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
More on Volunteering
Readers may recall that I directed them to a post by the FenceRider, last month, on Volunteer English Teaching. Today he has posted two updates on the benefits of volunteering for F2 or F5 visa holders: Why Teach for Free and Unexpected Developments.
After not teaching privates for 7 years I’ve decided to take on one as soon as I can find one, but unfortunately I don’t live in the Daegu area. If you do, be sure to read his post and take advantage of the opportunity.
I would also like to hear from readers who volunteer teach. Do you find the experience rewarding? Any difficulties with immigration?
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Apr 18, 2007 at 06:00 PM
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Fencerider wrote 32 words on Thursday Apr 19, 2007 at 09:14 AM
Thanks for the heads up and free advertising. You also caught my mistake. I should have mentioned F5 holders as well since they may have even more at stake in their communities.