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Murphy Crescent School - An all-age school for pupils with severe learning difficulties. Includes information on staff, facilities and individual class projects .
Durham School - A flexible blend of day and boarding education for boys and girls. Curriculum, news and events, staff and facilities.
Durham High School for Girls - Offer education for girls throughout their school careers, from 3 to 18. Includes information on the school history, scholarships and bursaries, governors and staff, parents association and an old girls section .
The Chorister School - Offers information on the school's history, facilities, choir, curriculum, staff, fees and contacts .
Sherburn Hill Primary School - A small rural primary school 8km east of the City . Provides information for parents and pupils including staff and curriculum, school club, and newsletter.
Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School - Offers details of its prospectus, curriculum, staff, facilities, location and contacts
Ludworth Primary and Nursery School - Education for children, from ages three to eleven . Provides information on the staff and class projects .
New College Durham - College of further and higher education provides details of courses, facilities, news and events, student projects, directions and contacts.
Bow School - An independent day school for boys aged 3 to 13. Includes information on staff and governors, facilities, curriculum, sport and recreational activities .
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw 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 Education Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Education "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw Education "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Education One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Education The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Education "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Education Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Education "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Education "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Education There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Education Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday Education Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Education "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Education Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package "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) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Education Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Education "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus Education
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