QUIPS AND QUOTES

TOO BUSY TO READ
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius

WHEN I AM KING
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper

BURNING BOOKS
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky 

The time and effort required to gather and analyse assessment information
is only worthwhile if that information is used to improve outcomes for students.
Education Review Office NZ

Beware of data that is relevant but inaccurate, or accurate but irrelevant.
Hans Rosling

'Praise, like gold and diamonds,
owes its value only to its scarcity.' —  Samuel Johnson

'Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.' ― Alexander Pope

'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather
be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' ― Norman Vincent Peale

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar.
It was tense.

Q: What do you call Santa’s little helpers?
A: Subordinate clauses

Did you hear the one about the pregnant woman
who went into labour and started shouting,
“Couldn’t! Wouldn’t! Shouldn’t! Didn’t! Can’t!”?
She was having contractions.

IRONY
hyphenated
non-hyphenated

I before E
Except when your foreign neighbour Keith receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters.