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College Quotes

Posted in Education, Education Quotes, Humor, Jokes, Quotations, Quotes, Reading, School on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I learned three important things in college – to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, and to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
- Agnes de Mille.

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Teaching Quotes

Posted in Education, Education Quotes, Quotations, Quotes, School, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Quotes on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun.

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Education Quotes

Posted in Education, Education Quotes, Humor, Jokes, Quotations, Quotes on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell 1872-1970.

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Spelling Quotes

Posted in Dictionary, Education, English, Quotes, Spell, Spelling, Spelling Quotes, Spelling Rules, Words, tagged , , , , on May 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Spelling Quotes
Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.
- Thomas Jefferson to his daughter
Quotes about Spelling

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A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling

Posted in Education, Humor, Jokes, Letters, Spelling, Spelling Jokes, Spelling Resources, Spelling Rules on March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s,” and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which [...]

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