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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
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
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
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
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
Korea to Build ‘English’ City
This is wrong on so many levels. Korea has sunk to new lows with their obsession on learning English. Now they want to build a brand new city from the ground up just for learning English - forget the English villages, which are already losing money and were originally destined for failure now we’ll spend even more money for even less returns.
who said that the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over but expecting different results?
English’ city lies at heart of Jeju’s development plans
First there were English villages where Korean students could go to practice their language skills.
Now there are plans to build an entire city where the lingua franca, including the medium of instruction, will be English.
Although no definite plans have been agreed upon with any schools at this point, Kim said they need to reach an agreement by sometime early next year in order to proceed with marketing and the admissions process for the targeted 2011 opening date.
Dan wrote 87 words on Friday Oct 24, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I’ve got an idea. How about we take all that development cash and improve primary and secondary education. Maybe a few more qualified English teachers? You know, the sort that can actually converse in English. Maybe then we can have graduates who have a little something to show for their 9 years of primary/secondary English language learning (that is not attributed to institutes).
I, like you, I seen too much of these gimmicks. It’s good money after bad with these projects. Improve the core educational system first.