Maple Hayes School and Research Centre - Information for parents about dyslexia and associated conditions, and about the school, its educational techniques, and facilities. Includes OFSTED report.
Stanbridge Earls School - Independent, co-educational, boarding and day school in Romsey, Hampshire, for pupils of 11 to 18, specialising in problems affecting those with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties.
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Dyslexia "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Dyslexia
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Dyslexia The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dyslexia
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Dyslexia A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Dyslexia
"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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Dyslexia If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Dyslexia
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Dyslexia I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Dyslexia
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Dyslexia The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dyslexia
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dyslexia "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Dyslexia
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Dyslexia Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Dyslexia
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Dyslexia Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Dyslexia
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Dyslexia Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Dyslexia
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Dyslexia I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Dyslexia
