Random Quote

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

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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

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

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

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

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

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

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

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

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

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

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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 Thursday May 31 2007

Some Good Reads

The first guest author here has posted, be sure to read Lady Sapphire’s review of the 1st Annual Global EIL Conference. This is a great read and I hope you will join me in welcoming Lady Sapphire to the blog. I look forward to her future posts. Vist her blog Ecclectic Seoul

Kevin also has a great post up - though I didn’t watch the YouTube videos.


Insight into TEFL has two interesting posts Encouraging English outside of the classroom and the Importance of Motivation.
Teacher in Development writes about Brain Friendly Classrooms
Scott Sommers writes about the Berlitz Union.
ELT Notebook writes about Teaching Mixed Ability Katie also touches on this.
The Korea Times - Foreign Residents Face Discrimination.


Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday May 31, 2007 at 02:10 PM
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