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	International Education Information Centre - Services and information for international students who want to study in Europe. Includes scholarship information, individual counselling, University Finder database, city guides, and links to 1378 European institutions of higher education.
	European Institute of Education and Social Policy - Nongovernmental organisation specialised in the comparison and evaluation of education policies and programmes in Europe.
	European Homeschooling Links - Resources, support groups, and laws for homeschooling.
	European SchoolNet - An international partnership of more than twenty European Ministries of Education developing learning for schools, teachers and pupils across Europe. Teachers find resources, news, practice examples and collaboration opportunities.
	Nordunet - The Nordic Internet highway to research and education networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and provides the Nordic backbone to the Global Information Society.
	Europaeum Association of Universities - Association of Oxford, Leiden, Bonn, Bologna, Geneva, Paris 1, and Charles University Prague. Provides news, key lectures, scholarships, summer schools, research directory, and news.
	Central and East Europe Education Directory - A guide to university courses in the countries of Central and East Europe, Russia and the CIS. Includes education profiles by country, undergraduate and post-graduate academic programmes and worldwide education and qualification arranged by area and programme of study.
	Eurostudent.net - Guide provides student contributed information on universities and activities in several European cities.
	European League of Institutes of the Arts - Independent network of Arts Education Institutes, covering Dance, Design, Theatre, Fine Art, Music, Media Arts and Architecture. Includes searchable database of institutes, publications, research and development projects, conferences and seminars, student networks, and grants programmes.
	Cultural Heritage Activities and Intstitutes Network - Funded by the European Commission's comenius programme, the network forwards and exchanges information and promotes new projects in the field of cultural heritage education. Seminars, projects, and articles.
	European Union Studies Association - Educational scholarly and professional association devoted to European Union affairs. Essays, teaching resources, organizational information, and membership form.
	Mercator-Education - European network for information, documentation and research into regional or minority languages in education. Regional dossiers, research, databases, history and goals, and newsletter.
	EFIL - European Federation for Intercultural Learning - The umbrella organization of the European AFS (formerly American Field Service)Organizations, a non-profit volunteer-based educational organization. Member organisations and programs, activities, and news.
	The European Federation of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education - EuroCHRIE is an international organisation that supports education and training for the industry. Management, news, conferences, publications, and members' directory.
	European Grinzane Network - Activities promoting the European cultural heritage represented by books and book culture. Partners, cultural activities, forum, chat, and portfolio.
	Women in European Universities - The programme located at M? University, Germany, aims at assessing the professional status of women in academia and at analysing the reasons for the under-representation in positions of authority in Universities. Presentation of the participants, contact information, a timetable and documents for download.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Education Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Education Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Education May you never leave your marriage alive. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Education Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Education Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Education The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Education A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Education The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Education The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Education Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Education "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Education "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Education You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Education Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Education To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Education Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |