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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
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
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
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
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
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
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
Everyone is Pragmatic
This semester it looks like pragmatics is a popular subject among the linguistics graduate students who are also EFL/ESL instructors. I’m taking pragmatics and currently puzzling over what to write about for the second essay, Dana talks about Framing and Semantics and Pragmatics while Jason spends time discussing Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis. Looks to be an interesting semester for all of us.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Sep 19, 2004 at 12:37 PM
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