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Dorton College of Further Education - College run by the Royal London Society for the Blind provides further education opportunities for students with visual impairments. Details of courses (including distance learning), facilities and application.
Dorton House School - Provides residential education for children who are blind or partially sighted. Brief information and contact details.
Henshaws College of Further Education - College in Harrogate run by Henshaws Society for Blind People, providing Further Education opportunities to young people with visual impairment and additional difficulties or disabilities. Details of courses, facilities and admission.
Liverpool Royal School for the Blind - Non-maintained school, and charity, for pupils aged between two and nineteen, including weekly boarding. Information about the teaching, facilities, and a school history.
Queen Alexandra College - Further Education College for blind and partially sighted students. Specialises in a wide range of vocational education.
The Royal Blind School - A day and residential school providing for the special educational needs of young people with visual impairments, from nursery through to secondary school. Located in Edinburgh.
Royal National College for the Blind - Residential specialist college of Further Education based in Hereford in the West Midlands. Details of the college and curriculum.
St Vincent's School For The Blind And Partially Sighted - Non-maintained co-educational Catholic special school in Liverpool offering primary and secondary education. Includes information on prospectus, activities and facilities.
West of England School for Young People With Little Or No Sight - Non-maintained special school offering day places, weekly and termly boarding for students with visual impairments, from nursery through to post-16 training. Information on education and special services, facilities, and their OFSTED report.
RNIB Schools and Colleges - A listing of schools and colleges run by the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Also includes links to education related information.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Blind and Visually Impaired Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Blind and Visually Impaired "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Blind and Visually Impaired It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln "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) Blind and Visually Impaired "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Blind and Visually Impaired Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Blind and Visually Impaired 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 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 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Blind and Visually Impaired Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Blind and Visually Impaired Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Blind and Visually Impaired "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Blind and Visually Impaired >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Blind and Visually Impaired Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Blind and Visually Impaired The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Blind and Visually Impaired Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Blind and Visually Impaired I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Blind and Visually Impaired The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Blind and Visually Impaired May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) 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 Blind and Visually Impaired "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Blind and Visually Impaired I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Blind and Visually Impaired "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." "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous Blind and Visually Impaired Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Blind and Visually Impaired 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 "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) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Blind and Visually Impaired
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