Random Quote
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Round-up: The Second
This is only my second blog round up: the first one is here. David writes about Oxford grads being able to change the B.A to an M.A for the paltry sum of 50 quid. The comments are quite long too, though I have only skimmed them. (trackbacks turned off for some reason - spam perhaps!)
On a somewhat related note Sandy (man or woman I don’t know - androgynous names are difficult) writes about dodgy employers in the UK. It seems that TEFL employers around the world like to screw employees: it’s not just Korean Hagwon owners. Fortunately Sandy wasn’t screwed, yet!
Gord has been writing lately about his classes. Two entries of interest are, about testing students and students being shocked that you might live with someone you are not married to. All three of these blogs are always a good read: check them out.
update
I just read what the Lost Nomad posted today and felt that it deserves some attention. It seems some hagwons in Busan have been passing off non-English speaking caucasians as Native Speakers. Read the article in the Chosun.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Mar 30, 2005 at 10:48 AM
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