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Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) (and Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN)) - News and information about independent union the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT), including Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) and Professionals Allied to Teaching (PAtT) sections and PAT (Education and Learning)charity.
Centre for Information on Language Teaching - CILT's prime objectives are to promote a greater national capability in languages and to support the work of all those concerned with language teaching and learning.
Association of Assessment Inspectors and Advisers - Association for all those with a professional interest in assessment, recording and reporting. Includes information on setting targets, particularly for the end of key stages 2 and 4, and a checklist about using assessment information for school improvement.
The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education - A membership organisation dedicated to the support of all those engaged in teaching and the support of learning. As a professional body the ILT aims to enhance the status of teaching in higher education, support innovation and recognise the experience and expertise of lecturers.
NAMSS - National Association for Managers of Student Services - Provides general information, student finance group, updates, mailing lists, publications, conferences and members only pages.
ACITT - National Association for Co-ordinators and Teachers of IT. Includes information on the National Curriculum review and various publications.
National Association for Primary Education - Site includes details of NAPE plus information on teacher's pay and links to education resources.
National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations - Site includes information on Hodder Home Learning and other educational resources for parents.
Bloxham Project, UK - An educational charity commissioned by one hundred and fifty schools to assist them in the work of developing their spiritual education and pastoral care.
Collaborative Learning Project, England - Supporting a cooperative network of teaching professionals throughout the European Union to support inclusive education and develop and disseminate accessible teaching materials in all subject areas and for all ages.
Classroom Assistant - An independent voice for classroom assistants. Providing advice and message board to exchange idea's and views.
GovernorLine - A free telephone helpline service for school governors in England. Lists services, members area and site map.
Examinations Officers Association - Help and advice for examinations officers mainly in the format of questions and answers. Includes association registration and contact details.
National Association of Headteachers - Professional Association serving all Heads and Deputies in all sectors of Education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Includes profile, services, documents and membership information.
LEACAN Network and WRL Toolkit - National network for education professionals with a 14 - 19 role in England and Wales. Includes organisation profile, details of Work Related Learning Toolkit, and membership information.
Human Scale Education - Educational charity promoting small schools and small classes. Background to the charity, their objectives, events and project news.
Education Extra - Charity that provides advice, resources, information and support for out-of-school-hours learning. Includes organisation details, awards scheme, members, projects, training, publications and news.
Association for Science Education - Professional association for teachers of science. Includes membership details, publications, INSET, conferences, journals and resources.
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Organisations "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla Organisations Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Organisations He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Organisations Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner Organisations "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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Organisations I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Organisations The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Organisations When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster "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) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Organisations "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Organisations A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Organisations "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 Organisations As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Organisations No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Organisations You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Organisations For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Organisations Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Organisations Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Organisations CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Organisations We seek the comfort of another. 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