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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
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
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
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
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
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- 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
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
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
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Wordpress for EFL learners
James Farmer has announced a new service providing free wordpress powered blogs to EFL/ESL learners,cleverly titled eslblogs. I actually handed out my syllabus today and directed my students to uniblogs (another James Farmer project) for my classroom blogging project before I checked my RSS reader, otherwise I would have directed them to eslblogs. I also learned that James was an EFL teacher in the past.
In other news - the baby still hasn’t come. If it doesn’t come before Thursday night we will be having it on Friday as we have scheduled an induction for that date.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Feb 27, 2006 at 05:02 PM
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James wrote 10 words on Tuesday Feb 28, 2006 at 05:48 AM
Thanks for the link & good luck with the baby!