Engineering and Technology Teachers' Association (ETTA) - Seeking to promote the educational value of metalwork, engineering, technology, technical drawing and allied subjects, the Association provides details of its structures and work.
Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) - A professional association and union representing over 1,400 staff in third-level institutions, the IFUT negotiates, prepares policy papers and organises events. Offers details of activities and some policy positions.
Irish Learning Support Association (ILSA) - Not a trade union but an association of staff involved in the learning support areas of education, in a self-help peer support group. Provides details of structure and aims, news and services.
Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) - Organises teachers and lecturers in Ireland engaged in post-primary, higher and further education. TUI represents over 11,000 members at second and third level in the education service. The Union is made up of 62 branches in 19 areas
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Teachers' Unions One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Teachers' Unions
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teachers' Unions Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Teachers' Unions
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Teachers' Unions Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Teachers' Unions
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Teachers' Unions "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Teachers' Unions
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Teachers' Unions The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Teachers' Unions
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Teachers' Unions "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Teachers' Unions
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Teachers' Unions "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Teachers' Unions
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Teachers' Unions Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Teachers' Unions
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Teachers' Unions "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Teachers' Unions
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Teachers' Unions "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) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Teachers' Unions
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Teachers' Unions A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Teachers' Unions
