Random Quote
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- 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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
JALT CALL 2008 conference
the JALT CALL 2008 conference is just around the corner. There’s more info on the site if you are interested. Wish I could go, but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it.
Title
* New Frontiers in CALL: Negotiating DiversityVenue and Dates
* Saturday, 31st May - Sunday, 1st June, 2008
* Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies
* Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
* 4-4 Sagamine, Komenoki-cho, Nisshin-shi, Aichi-ken, 470-0193 JapanKeynote Speaker
* Phil Hubbard Ph.D.
Director, English for Foreign Students
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Stanford University, USAPlenary Speaker
* Gavin Dudeney
Project Director, The Consultants-E
* The Internet and the Language Classroom (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
* How to Teach English with Technology (Longman, 2007)




