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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
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
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
English Teaching in Korea in the 60s
Brian has a lengthy excerpt posted about teaching English in Korea in the 1960s. It’s a fascinating read, mostly because of how similar much of it is to the situation now.
Most of the work I had to do was under the vague title ‘English Conversation’ and I know that the university administrations had little idea of what they wanted me to do.




