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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Nathans Question
Nathan, formally of Seoul Hero - now Coquitlam Odysseus, writes:
Hi,
How are you? I have a quick question: do you know of any plug-ins for the
Windows Media player that show a simple, clear relationship between what you
see in terms of visualizations, and what you hear in terms of pitch and
volume? It might be useful for teaching listening exercises.Thanks & all the best,
Nathan
I have no answer to this, but hopefully a reader can help out and provide a link or other possible resource.





Nathan wrote 11 words on Friday Jul 20, 2007 at 12:58 PM
Thanks, EFL Geek! I hope someone is able to suggest something.