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Newpark Comprehensive School - A co-educational, comprehensive, multi-denominational, state school, that reflects the increasingly international character of Irish society. Contains information on the curriculum, student pages, newsroom, plus sport and cultural activities.
Rockford Manor - Information about aspects of this Blackrock secondary girls school put together by two past pupils. History, student pages, curriculum and location map provided.
St. Andrew's College - Founded in 1894 this school provides both primary and secondary education. It is an interdenominational and co-educational college of approximately 1,200 pupils with many nationalities represented.
Blackrock College Union - Find out all about the Past Pupils Union - news and information centre. Founded in 1899 it now has over 2000 members.
Blackrock Education Centre - Provides support for teachers in the south Dublin and Wicklow areas, and is financed by the Department of Education. Founded in 1972 it was originally situated in Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock and now located in Deansgrange.
Blackrock College - Secondary school under the auspicies of the Holy Ghost Fathers. Includes news, departments, activities and a college tour.
School of Practical Child Care - Provide training in all aspects of childcare. Full and part time courses offered as well as Internet courses. Contact details available.
The Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business - Business school which is part of University College Dublin (UCD), located in the old Carysfort College of Education. Contains details of courses offered, news and events, links and contact information.
Rosemont Secondary School for Girls - Providing information about the school, curriculum and extra curricular activities. Past pupil's and parent's sections.
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Education "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Education Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Education Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Education You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Education Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Education The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Education Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Education "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Education "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Education And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer Education Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Education Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. -- Anne Sullivan "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Education Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones Education It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Education Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Education Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 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. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Education Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Education
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