Update

Hi there tout la gang,

We don't have much to say about research in practice at the Café right now

but we are talking policy and practice over here now: Literacy Enquirers.

Friday, July 27, 2007

devilish

Check out the Devil's Dictionary.

Here is the definition of accountability:
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

And a few more:
ACHIEVEMENT, n. The death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

...and
ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.



Have a good weekend! See you Monday.

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