The National Agency for Education - The government agency supervising child care and schools in Sweden, as well as preschool activities and child care for school children. Offers information about the educational system and translation of leavers' certificates.
Studiefrämjandet - The activities and member organizations of the Swedish Study Promotion Association.
Sweden: Education - General information on education in Sweden, from the Sweden Information Smorgasbord.
National Agency for Higher Education - Government agency about university issues. News, current issues, statistics and information for people with degrees from other countries.
Estia in Sweden - Education - Information about the Swedish educational system, provided by the Estia project.
The Swedish Folk High Schools - Boarding schools run by organizations or county councils, offering education in a wide range of subjects to adults. History, general overview, how to apply and characteristics of the schools.
Study in Sweden - The Swedish Institute's resource for those who are thinking about coming to Sweden as foreign students. Contains general information on practical matters as well as application procedures, links to universities and news about research in Sweden.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Education May you never leave your marriage alive. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Education It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Education
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Education "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Education
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Education Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Education
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Education
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Education Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Education
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Education
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Education The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Education
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Education
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Education The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford 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 Education
