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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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---- unknown

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

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---- Robert Copeland

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

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

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 Tuesday May 15 2007

Teachers Day

May 15 is Teachers Day in Korea. My university had the day off and honestly I think that is the best way to celebrate. I went out for lunch at an Indian Restaurant downtown and had some of the best curry I’ve had in ages. Anyhow you should watch the video below. The teacher, Joe McPherson, that put this together really spent alot of time. I know something about making videos and getting those FX right is more work than I’m willing to do.

There really are teachers who put in the extra effort out there. Hat Tip to The Marmot’s Hole.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday May 15, 2007 at 05:26 PM
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Mark wrote 20 words  on  Thursday May 17, 2007  at  10:33 AM Taiwan

It looked fun.  I wonder who named “Esther”, though.  According the the baby Name Voyager, that name peaked in 1901!

Sean.

Sean. wrote 9 words  on  Thursday May 17, 2007  at  12:18 PM Korea (South)

Esther is a popular name in Korea among Christians.

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Alison wrote 14 words  on  Thursday May 24, 2007  at  02:05 AM United States

Very cute!  It looks as though the kids had a fun time with this.

Sean.

Sean. wrote 19 words  on  Thursday May 24, 2007  at  08:42 AM Korea (South)

Alison,
Thanks for commenting. Hope to see you come by here again. Yes, I agree it was very cute.

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