Cumbria Governor's Council - The council has been created to give Cumbria governors a combined voice to both the L.E.A. and DfEE. It is also a self help group, so that governors can both support and help each other in the rapidly changing face of education.
Cumbria Lancashire Education Online - Information for teachers, parents and pupils in the Cumbria and Lancashire regions, from St Martin's College.
Cumbria and Lancashire Area NUS - The local NUS area organisation for Cumbria and Lancashire, Which exists to support the work of NUS UK at a local level and to act as an effective link between Students' Unions.
Cumbria County Council : Education - Details about the department, the services it provides and information about the many aspects of education.
Cumbria Advisory Teachers - Unofficial site for advisory teachers based in either Carlisle or Kendal. They support literacy, music, religious education, sports development, school effectiveness and information & communication technology.
Cumbria Primary Headteachers Association - An association run by primary heads for primary heads. It seeks to support all primary head teachers in their leadership and management roles. News, newsletters and details of meetings.
Education and Management Services - Personal English tutoring from Angela Brushett in South Cumbria. Details of tuition, advice and management services.
Lonsdale Study Revision Guides - Student revision guides and worksheets for private or school purchase. Key stages 2, 3 and 4.
Cumbria Education - Full Schools List - Listing of addresses and phone numbers of all schools in Cumbria, arranged by Borough Council regions. Some email addresses are listed.
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Education I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Education
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Education Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"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 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius 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 Education What's new? Most of my wife. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Education
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Education Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Education
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Education
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen 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 Education Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Education
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-- Brendan Hills Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Education It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Education
"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 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Education Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Education
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Education
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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. Education
