ESL Kingdom

Quote of the Day

2011-06-10T08:45:00.000+01:00

“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.” - Noah Webster

Quote of the Day

2011-06-09T08:01:00.000+01:00

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.” - Arnold Edinborough

Quote of the Day

2011-06-08T08:19:00.000+01:00

“Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.” - Mildred & Victor Goertzel

Quote of the Day

2011-06-07T08:45:00.000+01:00

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” - Ronald Reagan

Quote of the Day

2011-06-06T08:16:00.000+01:00

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” - Jimi Hendrix

Quote of the Day

2011-06-03T08:18:00.000+01:00

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.” - Christopher Fry

Quote of the Day

2011-06-02T08:19:00.000+01:00

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.” - Charles W. Eliot

Quote of the Day

2011-06-01T08:01:00.000+01:00

“I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.” - Groucho Marx

Quote of the Day

2011-05-31T08:45:00.000+01:00

“Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.” - John Maynard Keynes

Quote of the Day

2011-05-30T08:45:00.000+01:00

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

Quote of the Day

2011-05-27T08:45:00.000+01:00

“The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.” - G.K. Chesterton

Quote of the Day

2011-05-26T08:19:00.000+01:00

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” - Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

2011-05-25T08:18:00.000+01:00

“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.” - Galileo Galilei

Quote of the Day

2011-05-24T08:00:00.000+01:00

“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.” - George Orwell

Quote of the Day

2011-05-23T08:01:00.000+01:00

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” - Bill Gates

Quote of the Day

2011-05-20T08:16:00.000+01:00

“In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.” - Jean Paul Richter

Quote of the Day

2011-05-19T08:19:00.000+01:00

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” - J. K. Rowling

Quote of the Day

2011-05-18T08:01:00.000+01:00

“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.” - Karl Kraus

Quote of the Day

2011-05-17T08:01:00.000+01:00

“The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.” - Bishop Creighton

Quote of the Day

2011-05-16T08:18:00.000+01:00

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.” - Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day

2011-05-13T08:46:00.000+01:00

“A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.” - Chinese Proverb

Quote of the Day

2011-05-12T08:45:00.001+01:00

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” - Bill Beattie

TED TALK - Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong

2011-05-12T01:03:00.000+01:00

Quote of the Day

2011-05-11T08:45:00.000+01:00

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.” - Emerson

Quote of the Day

2011-05-10T10:44:00.000+01:00

“Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.” - Chinese Proverb

Quote of the Day

2011-05-09T08:43:00.000+01:00

“A different language is a different vision of life.” - Federico Fellini

Quote of the Day

2011-05-06T08:00:00.000+01:00

“The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.” - Plato

Quote of the Day

2011-05-05T08:43:00.000+01:00

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” - Ludwig Wittgenstei

Quote of the Day

2011-05-04T08:42:00.001+01:00

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.” - George Bernard Shaw

Quote of the Day

2011-05-03T08:41:00.000+01:00

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” - Vernon Sanders Law

Quote of the Day

2011-04-29T07:54:00.000+01:00

“If you can read this, thank a teacher.” - Unkown

Quote of the Day

2011-04-28T08:19:00.000+01:00

“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.” - Carl Sandburg

Quote of the Day

2011-04-27T08:18:00.000+01:00

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” - Henry Adams

Quote of the Day

2011-04-26T08:16:00.000+01:00

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - W. B. Yeats

Quote of the Day

2011-04-25T08:00:00.000+01:00

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.” - Baron Henry Peter Brougham

Quote of the Day

2011-04-22T08:00:00.000+01:00

“As was his language so was his life.” - Seneca

Quote of the Day

2011-04-21T08:00:00.000+01:00

“It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.” - Leon Battista Alberti

Quote of the Day

2011-04-20T08:00:00.000+01:00

“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” - Doug Larson

Quote of the Day

2011-04-19T08:00:00.000+01:00

“Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.” - Charles Knight

Quote of the Day

2011-04-18T08:00:00.000+01:00

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.” - Cicero

Quote of the Day

2011-04-15T08:31:00.000+01:00

“If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!!” - Andy McIntyre

Quote of the Day

2011-04-14T08:00:00.000+01:00

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” - Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

2011-04-13T08:00:00.000+01:00

“'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'” - J. R. R. Tolkien

Quote of the Day

2011-04-12T08:00:00.000+01:00

“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.” - Dr. Smiley Blanton

Quote of the Day

2011-04-11T08:29:00.000+01:00

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.” - Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the Day

2011-04-08T08:01:00.000+01:00

“The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.” - James R. Angell

Quote of the Day

2011-04-07T08:00:00.000+01:00

“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.” - Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day

2011-04-06T08:00:00.000+01:00

“All the knowledge in the world is found within you.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Quote of the Day

2011-04-05T08:00:00.000+01:00

“I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.” - Dodie Smit

Quote of the Day

2011-04-04T08:00:00.000+01:00

“High thoughts must have high language.” - Aristophanes

Quote of the Day

2011-04-01T08:02:00.000+01:00

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” - George Orwell

Quote of the Day

2011-03-31T08:01:00.000+01:00

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” - Robin Williams

Quote of the Day

2011-03-30T08:00:00.000+01:00

“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” - William Shakespeare

Quote of the Day

2011-03-29T08:00:00.000+01:00

“Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.” - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Quote of the Day

2011-03-28T08:59:00.000+01:00

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” - Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

2011-03-25T08:18:00.000Z

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.” - Hosea Ballou

Quote of the Day

2011-03-24T07:55:00.000Z

“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.” - Wu Ting-Fang

Quote of the Day

2011-03-23T07:54:00.000Z

“No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.” - Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day

2011-03-22T08:16:00.000Z

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” - Thomas H. Huxley

Quote of the Day

2011-03-21T07:55:00.000Z

“Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.” - Madeleine L'Engle

Quote of the Day

2011-03-18T07:55:00.000Z

“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.” - Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

2011-03-17T07:55:00.000Z

“An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” - Carl Jung

Quote of the Day

2011-03-16T07:54:00.001Z

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” - James Baldwin

Quote of the Day

2011-03-15T07:54:00.000Z

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.” - Sam Rayburn

Quote of the Day

2011-03-14T07:53:00.000Z

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” - Lorraine Anderson

Quote of the Day

2011-03-11T08:18:00.000Z

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.” - Robert Hutchins

Quote of the Day

2011-03-10T08:00:00.000Z

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.” - Thomas H. Huxley

Quote of the Day

2011-03-09T08:00:00.000Z

“My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.” - Woody Allen

Quote of the Day

2011-03-08T08:00:00.000Z

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Quote of the Day

2011-03-07T08:00:00.000Z

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” - Amos Bronson Alcott

Quote of the Day

2011-03-04T08:19:00.001Z

“Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.” - Robert E. Lee

Quote of the Day

2011-03-04T08:19:00.000Z

“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quote of the Day

2011-03-02T08:18:00.000Z

“Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.” - Minna Thomas Antrim

Quote of the Day

2011-03-01T08:16:00.000Z

“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.” - Plutarch

Quote of the Day

2011-02-28T08:16:00.001Z

“It is only the ignorant who despise education.” - Publilius Syrus

Quote of the Day

2011-02-25T08:56:00.000Z

“Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

Quote of the Day

2011-02-24T08:55:00.000Z

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” - Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day

2011-02-23T08:55:00.000Z

“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quote of the Day

2011-02-22T08:54:00.002Z

“Use soft words and hard arguments.” - Proverb

Quote of the Day

2011-02-21T08:53:00.000Z

“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.” - Frederick William Robertson

Quote of the Day

2011-02-18T08:00:00.000Z

“Education is the best provision for old age.” - Aristotle

Winter Update 2011

2011-02-17T08:10:00.000Z

This season we have changed the Fact Files: Countries to Fact Files: Countries and Cities and uploaded TWENTY EIGHT NEW LESSONS!! But that’s not all. We’ve something very special coming very soon. So watch this space!!!!

Quote of the Day

2011-02-17T08:00:00.000Z

“It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.” - Simone de Beauvoir

Quote of the Day

2011-02-16T08:00:00.000Z

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” - William Butler Yeats

Quote of the Day

2011-02-15T08:00:00.000Z

“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.” - Carl Rogers

Quote of the Day

2011-02-14T08:00:00.000Z

“Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.” - Ethel Mumford

Quote of the Day

2011-02-11T08:00:00.000Z

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre” - Gail Godwin

Quote of the Day

2011-02-10T08:00:00.000Z

“What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real” -. George Bernard Shaw

Quote of the Day

2011-02-09T08:00:00.000Z

“Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.” - Rita Mae Brown

Quote of the Day

2011-02-08T08:00:00.000Z

“A master can tell you what he thinks of you. A teacher, though awakens your own expectations.” - Partricia Neal

Quote of the Day

2011-02-07T08:00:00.000Z

“Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.” - Clifford Stoll

Quote of the Day

2011-02-04T08:00:00.000Z

“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.” - Robert Graves

Quote of the Day

2011-02-03T08:00:00.000Z

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” - Stephen Ambrose

The UK Explained...

2011-02-03T01:03:00.001Z

You can see the script for this video here (it really is FAST!!): http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-difference-between-the-united-kingdom-great-britain-england-and-a-whole-lot-more/

Quote of the Day

2011-02-02T08:00:00.000Z

“Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?” - Pliny the Elder

Quote of the Day

2011-02-01T08:00:00.000Z

“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” - Samuel Johnson

ESL Kingdom: Quote of the Day

2011-01-31T19:01:00.000Z

ESL Kingdom: Quote of the Day: "“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” - Martha Graham"

Quote of the Day

2011-01-31T08:00:00.000Z

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” - Martha Graham

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

2011-01-28T10:01:00.000Z

The Fun Theory

2011-01-28T09:57:00.003Z