Random Quote
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Vygotsky
Kevin has a question about Vygotsky. If you can give him an answer please help out. I want to answer, but for some reason my brain is currently incapable of forming coherent thoughts. No I’m not hungover or drunk - I don’t drink.





Kevin Kim wrote 92 words on Sunday Oct 28, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Thanks for putting out the All Points Bulletin for me. One ESL guru has kindly responded already, noting that there is no “Vygotsky Method,” per se, so I stand corrected. In my reply to his comment, I noted that the term was used by a friend of mine who owns and teaches at a language institute in New Zealand; my friend might have been using “Vygotsky Method” as shorthand for “language class conducted according to Vygotskian principles” or some such.
Anyway, I look forward to more responses and appreciate your post.
Kevin