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---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton

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

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---- Steve Dembo

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

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 Wednesday July 23 2008

White Man Cafe

If you are a white man and tired of teaching ESL in Asia, but don’t want to go home you could always head to Japan. Looks like there’s a market for the White Man Cafe.
Hat tip to the English Blog. Original video on CNN, but I found it on YouTube and embedded it here for your viewing convenience.




Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Jul 23, 2008 at 09:40 PM
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