ELTWeekly Issue#32, Quote of the Week
By Tarun Patel
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama
ELTWeekly Issue#32, English Language Teaching, ICT and ELT, Tarun Patel
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September 5th, 2009
ELTWeekly Issue#30, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
“I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away.”
- - One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought.
ELTWeekly Issue#29, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
(M. K. Gandhi True Education on the NCTE site)
ELTWeekly Issue#28, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
- Charles McCabe
ELTWeekly Issue #25, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
“…if learners are exposed only to texts about things they know, they may over-rely on intelligent guesswork at the expense of their ability at bottom-up processing”
- Scott Thornbury
ELTWeekly Issue #23, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
- Napoleon Hill
ELTWeekly Issue #22, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
- Oscar Wilde
ELTWeekly Issue #21, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: the potential for greatness lives within each of us.
ELTWeekly Issue #20, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
ELTWeekly Issue #18, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
- T. S. Eliot