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---- Fred Allen

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

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 university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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 Tuesday May 20 2008

1000

This is the 1000th post on EFL Geek. I would say that over 90% of my posts have been directly related to ELT with a few non-sequitors over the years and recently a few posts on web design.

Of course I’ve had a few posts by guest authors as well and am always looking for more guest authors who would like to contribute either once or even regularly.

Looking forward to the next 1000 entries.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday May 20, 2008 at 02:01 PM
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Chris Cotter wrote 19 words  on  Thursday May 22, 2008  at  07:15 AM Japan

Congrats on 1000 posts! Benchmarks are always nice, but huge benchmarks are always great! Here’s to your next 1000.

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