Institute of Technology, Sligo - The Institute is one of Irelands' most progressive third level colleges. With student numbers reaching close on 3,000 the college offers courses in the fields of Science, Engineering, Business and Humanities.
Geevagh National School - A four room school, with a strong interest in sport, in the south east of the county.
St. Angela's College - Courses to enable present and future religious educators to engage with the Catholic Christian tradition, other Christian traditions and the major world faiths.
Ransboro National School - The school is situated approximately three miles from Sligo. At present it has seven teachers and 184 pupils.
Stokane National School - This is one of the 15 primary schools located in a triangle west of the Ox Mountains, and east of Killala Bay.
Sligo Grammar School - Sligo Grammar School is a co-educational boarding and day school in the north west of Ireland providing a broadly based education.
Moylough School - Includes school information, a parish news letter and photographs.
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-- Stephen Leacock Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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-- Charles Lamb There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education Work is the curse of the drinking class.
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-- Arnold Bennett Education
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
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-- Wilfred Sheed Education
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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-- Joseph Addison Education "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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-- Anton Chekhov You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Education Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Education
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The society of women is the element of good manners.
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- Von Clausewitz Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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