Random Quote
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
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
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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 never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Saying Good Bye
If there are any readers left of this blog, I’m sure you’ve noticed the incredibly slow trickle of entries over the last year or two compared to the frequent posts of yesteryear. I’ve kept this blog alive for a couple of reasons. One, I still get a lot of hits on the older articles and I’ve met several people over the years (and recently as well) who told me they’ve come across the blog while googling for something and found their answer.
Second I was hoping to get reinspired to write like I did in the past. However that has not happened and I don’t see anything changing in the future. I do have things to write, but most of it is negative and I am not interested in putting the effort necessary to write it – especially in light of the Korean laws on libel and slander (even if it’s true, if it damages someones reputation you can be sued and will lose).
I’ve also been planning my move back to Canada in Summer 2011 and once there I will not be teaching English but doing web development. Once I made that decision last year, a switch inside my mind flipped and I 100% lost the drive to blog about language teaching.
This is my final post on the EFL Geek. The domain here will expire in 1 year and 2 months (April 2011) and when it does this blog will disappear. I am willing to sell the domain if anyone is interested in purchasing it – make me an offer and it’s yours. I will not however sell the content.
I would like to thank all my commenters and readers for dropping by and visiting.




