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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
"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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
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
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
TEFL bloggers Unite!
Alex Case is reporting on some (il)legal troubles that bloggers are encountering with one individual on the internet. It seems that this individual is threatening to sue owners of blogs even when said blogs have written nothing about this individual on their own blogs.
It also appears that he has been somewhat successful in shutting down two bloggers already. He is currently targeting Alex - go read Alex’s post and offer your support.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 13, 2008 at 03:35 PM
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Alex Case wrote 2 words on Friday Mar 14, 2008 at 09:55 PM
Thanks EFLG!