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

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

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)

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

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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

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

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

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Monday May 05 2008

#1 in Korea

According to ZenKimchi, my blog is the #1 ranking blog in Korea - clearly there is a mistake here, but I’ll revel in the glory, even if it’s false.


Ranking based on blog juice. Below are the top 20

5.1 EFL Geek
5.1 POPSEOUL!
4.5 Elyse Sewell
4.4 korean cooking’s Xanga
4.4 Coming Anarchy
4.3 The Marmot’s Hole
3.9 Asian Pop with YeinJee
3.8 Dramabeans
3.6 Web 2.0 Asia
3.5 Scribblings of the Metropolitician
3.3 Korea Beat
3.3 My Korean Kitchen
3.1 ZenKimchi
3.0 Seoul Searcher’s Blog
2.9 Frog in a Well
2.8 ZenKimchi Korean Food Journal
2.7 ROK Drop
2.4 The Daily Kimchi
2.3 East Windup Chronicle
2.2 Occidentalism


Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday May 5, 2008 at 03:10 PM
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