Marshall Scholarships - Finance up to forty young Americans annually to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Provides information about the scholarship competition, how to apply, current scholars and past alumni.
Council Exchanges UK - Offers a selection of programmes for young people, university students, graduates and professionals.
French Exchange - Offers French exchange visit arrangement services for UK children aged 12 to 18. Includes profile, exchange arrangements, host families, FAQ, travel hints, registration form and terms and conditions.
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Educational Exchanges Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Educational Exchanges
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Educational Exchanges One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Educational Exchanges
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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Educational Exchanges Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Educational Exchanges
"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) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Educational Exchanges May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 Educational Exchanges
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Educational Exchanges Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Educational Exchanges
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Educational Exchanges "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) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Educational Exchanges
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Educational Exchanges 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Educational Exchanges
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Educational Exchanges An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Educational Exchanges
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Educational Exchanges Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Educational Exchanges
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Educational Exchanges Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Educational Exchanges
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Educational Exchanges Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Educational Exchanges
