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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
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
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
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
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
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
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
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
"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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Summer Vacation
Summer Vacation officially began about three minutes ago when I submitted my grades and emailed off the last of the reports that I had to write. I am now free until September 1. This however does not mean I will be sitting around drinking margaritas all day - no, I’m going to be smoking busy as I launch my new career in web design and take on a bunch of extra work on the side - here’s the to do list as it stands:
- private kids class twice a week 1 hour each time. This is actually more stress than you think as I don’t really enjoy teaching kids, but the money is good.
- private company class twice a week 7:30-9:00 am. This is easy, but involves getting up early some travel and prep - but the money is good and I enjoy it.
- In august I’ll be picking up 3 extra private classes for a woman going on vacation - this will be a lot of work, but it’ll also be a huge chunk of cash that will help us pay off the house loan faster
- This semester I’ve been doing classroom research and it is now time to compile the data and write an article for publication. My co-researcher has also submitted an application to present at TESOL 2009. If we get accepted I’ll be going to Denver at the end of March.
- I’ve recently launched a new web design venture. This is essentially my career transition plan for when I move back to Canada. This involves a lot of work and learning on my part:
- Just finished redesigning this site, but it still needs a little work
- received my first confirmed client, but this client is using a software that I am unfamiliar with (wordpress). I was planning on learning it later, but I guess it’s time to dive in.
- I need to figure out how much to charge, how to receive payments, and a billing cycle
- I still need to get my portfolio site (web business) off the ground. Was going to do that next, but paying clients get priority.
- I want to redo this site, my Korean learning blog, and set up a teaching portfolio site for myself.
- design and print business cards
- Learn JavaScript (which is giving me headaches already) and Jquery.
- I have another client setting up a business site for the first time - but for this I get to use Expression Engine so will be more fun.
- Yesterday I restarted my exercise routine - 5km on the running machine, chin-ups and push-ups daily.
- I also need to upgrade my student site and the department moodle
- modify my class materials for next semester.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Jun 20, 2008 at 07:26 PM
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