Quote of the day

Academic Anagrams
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
Dormitory = dirty room
United States history = Dates unite this story
Schoolmaster = the classroom
A decimal point = I'm a dot in place
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Thursday 15 January 2009)

According to the Beloit College Mindset list, students graduating in 2009:
- Never saw the shuttle Challenger fly.
- Don't remember when "cut and paste" involved scissors.
- Never had the fun of being thrown into the "way back" of a station wagon with six other kids.
- Have always relied on Starbucks for caffeine emergencies.
(Teachers page-a-day calendar - Friday 16 January 2009)

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramhansa Yogananda
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Wednesday 26 November 2008)

Just watch children playing. Eat vegetable soup instead of duck stew.
- Bashō's advice to poets
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Thursday 27 November 2008)

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.
- Yuan-wu
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Friday 28 November 2008)

After evening rainfall at Pa-shang,
the flying "V" of wild geese,
the leaves hanging limp and dripping,
A single lantern's pale gleam,
and empy garden wet with dew,
the crumbling walls of the monastery
. . . enough, I think, long enough:
what am I waiting for?
- Ma Tai
(Zen page-a-day calendar - Saturday 29 November 2008)