Yhtenäiskoulu - A twelve-year school providing primary and secondary education. Presentation of the school's history and projects.
International School of Helsinki - Lower school, upper school and an International Baccalaureate program. Admission, employment, newsletter and calendar.
The English School - A private school with instruction in English. Fees, admission, classes and facilities.
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Education
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Education The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Education
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Education Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Education
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Education The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "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 Education
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Education I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Education The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer Education "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Education
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Education
