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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

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

"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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

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

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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

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

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

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

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Friday, April 16, 2004

Why Macquarie?

 
Thursday, April 15, 2004

opening hwp files in MSword

 
Tuesday, April 06, 2004

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Critical Thinking part 2

 
 
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Goal Setting

 
Saturday, March 20, 2004

Pragmalinguistic Errors

 
 
Saturday, January 31, 2004

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