ELTWeekly Issue#33, Quote of the Week
By Tarun Patel
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
- Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
ELT Newsletter, ELTWeekly Issue#33, English Language Teaching, ICT and ELT, Tarun Patel
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September 10th, 2009
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#27, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
ELTWeekly Issue#26, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
English is the common tongue of our global village. Whether you live and work in an English speaking country, or need English for travel and fun, English is the passport to success and a deeper understanding of our quickly changing world.
- Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide to ESL
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 #24, Quote of the week
By Tarun Patel
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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