Fowey Community College - Includes a background to the history of education in Fowey, and extra curricular activities.
Hayle Community School - The aim is to create a community where pupils develop their academic potential to the full, within a caring and secure environment, and where the partnership between home and school is promoted.
Mullion School - Information for prospective students and their parents.
Torpoint Community School - Pages focus on the sixth form but the school provides education from 11 to 18.
Pool School & Community College - Secondary school provides information on history, job vacancies, building work and webcams as well as the more usual events, gallery and resources.
Launceston Technology College - School with active sixth form invitess adults to join the sixth form classes. Includes pages on ex-students and ex-staff.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Secondary Schools The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Secondary Schools
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Secondary Schools A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Secondary Schools
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Secondary Schools To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Secondary Schools
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 Secondary Schools The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Secondary Schools
"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) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Secondary Schools The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Secondary Schools
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Secondary Schools "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Secondary Schools
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Secondary Schools A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Secondary Schools
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Secondary Schools Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Secondary Schools
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Secondary Schools Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Secondary Schools
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Secondary Schools If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Secondary Schools
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Secondary Schools Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Secondary Schools
