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St. Ailbe's School - History of the school plus general information and news of latest activities.
Presentation Secondary School - News and information on a girls' school in Clonmel.
Rockwell College - Information on Catholic secondary school for boys and girls. Comprehensive information about the school which is located in Cashel.
Rockwell College - Union for Rockwell College, providing news on all union activities.
Tipperary Institute - Information on courses available.
Scoil Chormaic - Information about the school, curriculum details, news and contact details.
David Reade Homepage - College website detailing practical work and experience as well as term projects and research essays.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Education Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Education The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Education Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Education For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Education Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "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 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Education Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Education It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Education Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Education "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France "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) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Education "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Education One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Education Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Education "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Education Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Education I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Education "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Education
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