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Socrates UK - European Union education programme spanning the entire breadth of the national education system. Includes programmes, case studies, resources, FAQ, news and application details.

Schoolzone - Resource for schools and all curriculum areas, with well edited weblinks.

IQ Education - Offers a wide variety of educational resources.

BBC - WebGuide - Schools - Links to pre-school, primary and secondary education websites offering lesson plans, learning games and resources up to GCSE and A level.

Kevins Playroom - Provides links to sites that help with homework and school projects.

Resource Discovery Network - Comprehensive higher education link directory.

Learning Alive - Education links, and resources for schools to communicate with others and publish web pages.

Bullying Online - Advice for parents, advice for children, school projects and legal advice.

Learn.co.uk - Learning resources for the national curriculum from The Guardian. GCSE curriculum subjects for lessons, revision, homework, exams, tests, teacher resources and interactive learning.

Eduvia.com - Advice for schools and institutions about taking children on offsite educational trips.

Key Stage 123 - Key stage relevant links, purchasable educational resources and guidance on preparation for tests and exam.

Creativity, The Literary Charity - Offers workshops and presentations to encourage individuals to explore their own creative potential. Charity profile and contact details.

4Learning - Online educational resources for teachers, pupils and home learners.

Maths Help - Free help and advice with problems in mathematics and statistics at GCSE, A-level, BTEC, GNVQ and foundation year degree level.

Active Reviewing Guide - Free ezines, tips, tools, articles, research, and book extracts about active learning.

BBC Learning - Archive of BBC educational websites. Includes lesson plans, articles and other educational resources.

BBC: Schools Revision Guide - Comprehensive listings of resources for revising for your GCSEs, standard grades, AS levels, SATs and KS3 exams.

National Foundation for Educational Research - Aims to improve education nationally and internationally by undertaking research and dissemination activities. Includes organisation profile, research activities and reports, publications, and information services.

British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) - Trade association for the educational supply industry. Includes information about the association, pages for educators, and searchable database of suppliers.

infomat.net - Campaign to encourage Internet use within the national curriculum and to provide an information network to support the education sector. Includes campaign details, and demonstration pages of Class Room, Home Time, Playground and Staff Room zones.

Lancaster Steiner Education Project - Offers Steiner education for children aged 7 to 14 years. Includes links to schools offering Steiner education in the UK, curriculum and philosophy overview, and pictures.

Giantminds Youth Challenge - A fresh school challenge for all 11-16 year olds in the UK. Offers an overview of the application process, this year's challenge, and information for teachers.

Safe Routes to Schools - Aims to promote sustainable travel to school through dissemination of best practice. Features project information, benefits, FAQs, safe routes listing, volunteer opportunities, publications and resources.

SMART Education - Conducts research into the use of SMART Board interactive whiteboards and aims to support teachers, pupils, students and lecturers. Includes resources and files, publications, training and support, demonstrations and case studies.

Sathya Sai Education in Human Values - Educational programme designed for character development, based on fundamental human values. Includes resources, training, news and information for parents and teachers.

SETNET: The Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics Network - Resources to improve students' understanding of science and to enable teachers, business and industry to obtain information about resources, schemes and initiatives. Includes news, services, resources, and map of regional SETPOINTS.

Support 4 Learning - Information, advice and resources for students and advisers. Sections include careers, community, counselling, jobsearch, education, health, money, reference and a calendar of dates in world religions.

National Curriculum in Action - A guide to the National Curriculum including samples of work with assessment notes and discussion forums.

National Curriculum - Resources, teaching guidance and ideas, information from National Curriculum teacher handbooks, and non-statutory guidelines, offered by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Includes subject and cross-curricular resources, and inclusion information.

DfES: Green Paper Consultation on Education Proposals - Sets out Government consultation proposals to build on education reform. Includes full document to read online, download or request in print.

Catholic Education Service - Aims to promote and safeguard Catholic interests in education and to contribute to Christian perspectives within educational debate. Includes organisation profile and publications list with order form. [Frame-based site]

First School Years - Free worksheets, flashcards and other resources for Early Years, Key Stage 1 and Elementary teachers.

ICT Coordinator - Software, tips, links and other resources for ICT coordinators.

UK-Learning.Net - Discussion forum for GCSE, A-level and university students.

FastTomato.com - Interactive site providing guidance to students aged 13-19 for their career and education choices. Includes questionaires, school-linked advisors and resources.

Directgov - Learning - Official government public resource offers options for studying for higher education students, adult learners, studying abroad, parents, over 50s, disabled people and carers.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Education "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry Education "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Education "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Education blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Education "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Education He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde Education "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Education Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton "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 Education To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Education We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Education Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Education All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. -- Betty Shabazz Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Education Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde Education If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Education your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education "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) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Education
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