Random Quote
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
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
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
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 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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
"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
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
Teaching Portfolio Tips
Pedablogue posted a great series of links on how to prepare a teaching portfolio. This is a must read for any teacher.
I have already prepared a portfolio of material that helped me to get my latest job. In fact when I went in for the interview I was told I had the job and there was no need for me to come back for a second interview or do a teaching demo. I have since found out that the other new teachers this semester all had to do a second interview and teaching demo. Portfolios work.
These sites seem more geered towards working in academia rather than in the ESL feild, but as I said it helped me. Additionally there is every advantage to be had by doing more than the next guy. Good luck in your future job searches.





Rethabile Masilo wrote 14 words on Thursday Mar 18, 2004 at 09:26 PM
I went over, and it is interesting and potentially useful. Thanks for the post.