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As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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 is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
What are your summer plans?
What are your summer plans? I’ve got 10 weeks of vacation starting next friday, but I won’t be resting I’ll be teaching. I’ve got a 3 week course for multimedia listening that runs 3 hours per day Monday to Friday. The good thing about this class is that it was taught by a friend, who is going to Guatamala for the summer, and he gave me all of his lesson plans and materials so all I need to do is adapt it to how I teach. It’s definitely going to be a fun class to teach. 6 music videos, 1 episode of smallville, audio books and Stand by Me.
I am also working on the Korean podcast for learners which I can’t provide details on at this point but hopefully will be very similar to ChinesePod. Additionally, I’m going to be doing some work on the
ESL/EFL Wiki daily. Still looking for other contributors to the wiki as it is going to take a lot of work to make it into an excellent resource. Far more work than one person alone can do. So far two people have promised to contribute but not for a few weeks as they have prior commitments.
And finally because I’m a masochist I signed up for 7 am classes, again! These classes run for the entire summer. At least I can sleep on Wednesdays (no classes).
vote in the poll about your summer vacation.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Jun 11, 2006 at 07:49 AM
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David (TEFL Smiler) wrote 13 words on Sunday Jun 11, 2006 at 11:26 AM
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Trying to get my effing life in order!
Sean. wrote 13 words on Tuesday Jun 13, 2006 at 10:30 PM
David,
I know it’s rough right now and I’m praying for your success.