Random Quote
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
"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
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
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)
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
GALL
Gall is Google Assisted Language Learning and there’s an article about it in the referreed journal Language Learning and Technology. The full text is available and if you want to keep it or print it (with proper pagination) there is also a pdf available.
hat tip to the ELT World forums.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Feb 9, 2008 at 08:41 AM
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