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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

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

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

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

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

"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

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

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

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 Wednesday March 30 2005

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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