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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
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
"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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
Where in the world do you teach/work?
I asked this in a poll ages ago, but that poll script ended up not working when I moved to EE and now that Ee has a native poll module I can ask it again. So let’s find out where in the world you teach English? Obviously I cannot list every country so I broke the world down into what I think are logical regions.
Feel free to discuss the pros and cons of various regions. For myself I have only ever worked in Korea and would be very interested in hearing about other areas. I have some knowledge of a few countries based on some blogs I read but would like to hear more. If you don’t blog and would like to share your story, this is would be a great opportunity. If you know of any ESL oriented blogs not on my blogroll, let me know so I can add them or at the very least start following them.
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In other news, I’ve started work on my review of Macquarie University and distance learning. This will be a multi part post. I won’t be posting it until I have the entire series completed and then will probably post one part every 2-3 days.
I’m off to Singapore on July 10th for one week and am looking forward to my first non-Korean vacation in three years. So that week no blogging from me.
Finally I’m still willing to open this blog to guest posters. If anyone is interested, you first need to be a member and then visit the guest entry page. Your entry will be submitted to the moderation queue and should be approved within 24 hours, often less.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Jun 28, 2005 at 08:40 PM
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David (TEFL Smiler) wrote 69 words on Thursday Jun 30, 2005 at 11:20 PM
I clicked Unemployed, but very soon that won’t be true, of course.
Is there any way you can alter your polls so that it’s possible to view them without voting? I’ve just voted on a different computer, and I won’t be able to view the results again later. Likewise, with one of my browsers I always discard cookies automatically at the end of each session, with the same result.
Sean. wrote 25 words on Friday Jul 1, 2005 at 07:13 AM
Yeah I can change that, I’ll do it for this poll and future polls, but don’t feel like going back and changing the old ones.