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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
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The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

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 Friday November 16 2007

Oxford Day 2007

Oxford Day is tomorrow November 17th at Ewha Womens University. Speakers include:
Rod Ellis
Lyle Bachman
Ritsuko Nakata
Ken Wilson
Richard R. Day
Patrick Jackson

I’ll be there and if I have some time over the weekend, unlikely, I’ll write up a review of the presentations.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Nov 16, 2007 at 09:33 AM
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