Eaton Bray Lower School - Co-educational, catering for 4 - 9 year olds. Includes aims, admissions procedure, examples of children's work and news.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Education Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Education 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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Education
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Education Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Education
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Education "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Education
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull 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. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Education "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Education
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Education The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Education
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Education "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Education
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Education By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Education
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Education
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Education
