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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
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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.
---- George Orwell
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
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
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
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Read these blog entries
Aaron Campbell, Marco Polo, and JH (whom I found via Marco and am adding to my blogroll) have all written very interesting and thoughtful peices that any teacher should read.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Oct 25, 2005 at 03:06 PM
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