Discover Finland - Information about studying in Finland. List of Finnish universities and polytechnics. About different youth exchange programs. General information about Finland.
EDUfi - Extensive information on the education system. Maintained by the National Board of Education.
Nordic School of Art - Located in Kokkola. Open to visually talented youngsters from all over Scandinavia. School information and examples of their project works.
Salpaus International - Offering distance learning language courses. Based in Lahti.
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Education "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Education
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Education
"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) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Education
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "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." When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Education If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Education
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Education There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Education
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Education Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Education
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Education To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Education
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Education "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Education
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Education "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education
