Random Quote
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
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
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
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
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
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)
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
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
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
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
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
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
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
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Teach English while getting high!
Due to rising demand, in 1995 we began offering short-term English language study in tutorial settings to overseas students. We offer a 20-hour workload, plus free accommodation in our adjacent guesthouse.
Application requirements:-
* RSA Diploma (or CELTA will do)
* A customer-friendly attitude
* Must be a smoker
* Theatrical training (but no prima-donnas)
* Knowledge of various rock bands from 1965 to 1974
The job is suitable for all genders; male, female or mixed/doubtful.
Short-listed applicants will be invited to Amsterdam to provide a teaching demonstration while under the influence of our famous ‘SuperSkunk’. This is in order to test the applicant’s endurance and suitability for the post.
The best part, this cafe is run by a Korean Dr Kim Min Su so maybe my Korean experience will count for something… Contact the good doctor at: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Check Sandy’s blog for more details.




