Random Quote

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

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

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

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

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Classic Entries

 
Saturday, December 02, 2006

E2 Visa Rules

 
Saturday, November 11, 2006

What I learned at Cambridge Day 2006

 
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

wanted: ugly teacher

 
Thursday, June 29, 2006

Jeopardy

 
Monday, June 12, 2006

Vocabulary Learning Through Roleplay

 
Sunday, May 28, 2006

EFL Geek interview

 
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

You Tube and ESL

 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

EFL for Dummies

 
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Attitude

 
Monday, March 13, 2006

How I use Moodle

 
Monday, October 17, 2005

KOTESOL 2005 - report

 
Friday, September 23, 2005

Vocabulary Acquisition

 
Saturday, July 02, 2005

Macquarie a Review: Table of Contents

 
Thursday, June 16, 2005

English Nicknames

 
Sunday, June 05, 2005

Stick a Fork in me

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