Helliwell Sprachschule Siegburg - Language School providing instruction in English and other foreign languages as well as German as a foreign language.
Lesen 2000 - Learning basic skills in German language: hundreds of pictures and words spoken by native speakers. Includes 16 learning games with a lot of fun for children from age 4 to 11.
Eurasia Language Institute - Offers courses in German as a foreign language. Prepares students for the TestDaF/DSH examinations to enter a German university as well as offering homestay programmes.
Association of the parents' councils of comprehensive schools in Hamburg - Provides representation, propagation of peoples' interests at comprehensive schools, information for pupils, students, teachers, and parents and discussion of issues regarding educational systems. Site in German and English.
Bitburg High Alumni 1963-1970 - This is a point of contact for those who attended and taught at Bitburg American High School, Germany, during the Sixties.
KomminO - J.W. Goethe University project analyses organisational communication structures using a survey. Available to German and Austrian companies.
WISP - Work Immersion Study Program in Germany - Internship program in a number of business and technical fields from June through August 2002. Information on the program, eligibility requirements and the application process.
Hi Potentials! - Information on how to study in Germany: requirements, grants, universities, life in Germany. By the Deutsche Welle radio station on behalf of an initiative of federal and state government and businesses.
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-- ee cummings To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Education Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Education
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Education blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Education
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Education In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Education
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Education Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Education
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Education The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Education
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Education Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Education
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Education
