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---- Steve Dembo
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
scapegoating English teachers in Korea
Gusts of Popular Feelings posts a lengthy peice about scapegoating English teachers in Korea. The author cites countless articles dating back to 1995 and has clearly spent a large amount of time writing this post. I’m about a third of the way through at this point and wanted to share with everyone.
go read it!
Hat Tip to The Marmot’s Hole.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Sep 22, 2007 at 02:33 PM
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JMac wrote 34 words on Monday Sep 24, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Indeed, a good read, and a good walk down memory lane of life in the papers since I’ve been here (got here Feb ‘96).
How’s that saying go, “The more things change, ...... “?
Sean. wrote 37 words on Wednesday Sep 26, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Jmac,
Indeed I agree with you. I got here in May 1997 and a lot of things have changed, but I must also say there have been a lot of possitive changes in that time as well.
JMac wrote 75 words on Thursday Sep 27, 2007 at 09:45 AM
I meant that quote in terms of how ‘foriegners’ are treated/portrayed in the media, not specifically to how general living conditions have improved over that time.
I’m not a sucker for punishment—if it wouldn’t have improved, I probably wouldn’t have stayed. I like that fact that I can work on different projects, etc. with my F-5 visa (though there are are still issues with that), things that have contributed to my general qulaity of life.