Derby Grammar School - Offering boys aged 7 - 18 years educational opportunities and traditional standards.
Derby High School - An independent school providing education for boys and girls from pre-school to age 11 and for girls only from 11 to 18 on a single site.
Landau Forte College - A mixed comprehensive City Technology College 11-18 situated close to the city centre.
Merrill College - A grant maintained school for students aged 11-18, situated on two sites at Shelton Lock and Allenton.
Bemrose School - A website for Ex Bemrosians - Reunion site where you can share memories, renew friendships, and relive the experience of school life with other Old Bucket Bangers. Includes message board and photos.
Meadow Farm Community Primary School - Information about most aspects of this school, including staff photos, governor's reports and newsletters.
Derby Science Tutor - Home tutoring service offered by qualified secondary school teacher. Subjects include A and AS level Biology, GCSE Science, Science SATs and Primary Maths.
Drug-Aware - Provides on-site drug and alcohol testing products and assists in the implementation of drug and alcohol policies in the workplace.
Derby College for Deaf People - Information about the college and its facilties, with an online application form. The site also contains a sign language feature and text only version.
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 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Education
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Education The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Education
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Education We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Education
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Education Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Education Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Education
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Education "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Education
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Education "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Education
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Education Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Education
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Education Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Education
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Education In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Education
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) 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 "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
