Highdown School - Highdown School is situated in Emmer Green. It is an LEA comprehensive school with approximately 1,000 students aged between 11 and 18.
Long Close School - Independent co-educational day school for children aged 2 to 13. School history, curriculum, admissions and staff details. Located in Upton.
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Schools The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Schools
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Schools blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Schools
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Schools The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "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 am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Schools
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Schools Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Schools
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 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 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Schools Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 Nietzsche Schools
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Schools Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Schools
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Schools "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Schools
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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Schools He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Schools
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Schools Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Schools
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Schools My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Schools
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Schools That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Schools
