"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the ocean searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more...so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure."
-- Dr. Michael Scriven

Cribbed from the book "Making Minutes Count Even More", by David Johnson. (It's geared toward math teachers, but it's still funny!)

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How to tell that the school year is half over1. I have been asked at least 100 times, "Oh, did I have to show my work ( Read more... )

"Far from showing their patriotism, critics who muzzle themselves in wartime are abdicating a democratic responsibility." --David Greenberg

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

--Theodore Roosevelt, 1918, Republican president during the Spanish-American War

"English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England!"

--Homer J. Simpson

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
--Pete Seeger

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
William Howard Taft (1857-1930) 27th U.S. President (1909- 13)

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/eduquote.htm

I love Dave Barry sometimes. Especially when he mentions English majors.

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