The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
English culture is highly literary-based.
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way
You can learn English online
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child, of course; you stand up for your child, but you mustn't do it all too vehemently, and above all not too eloquently - you mustn't drive anyone into...
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his ...
...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making m...
I'm sure it is," she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. "But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, taleneted, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you...
Mr. Mancini had a singular talent for making me uncomfortable. He forced me to consider things I’d rather not think about – the sex of my guitar, for instance. If I honestly wanted to put my hands on a woman, would that automatically mean I could...
Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dea...
I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!
