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Education and Lifelong Learning in Devon - Information on Devon's Education, Arts and Libraries Directorate. School information, community education, museums, heritage and other services.
Devon Discovery - Eight outdoor and residential centres supported by Devon County Council which are located throughout the county in attractive and stimulating settings.
Gridlink Education System - Offer a full-time education, following the UK National Curriculum, for the chronic sick, pupils recovering from illness/injury, special needs, school-phobics, excluded pupils, and children whose parents prefer home education.
Devon Curriculum Services - Educational services of Devon County Council.
Torbay Grid for Learning - Information for all those with an interest in Education and Learning with categorised links to the best resources on the web particularly for those in the UK.
Community Council of Devon - Rural Charity giving advice and support for rural communities on funding projects, local history, village halls, playing fields, dealing with the media, parish councils and community self help.
David Charlesworth - Fine furniture-making courses in Bideford.
North Devon Pathfinder Trust Ltd - Runs open access training centres across North Devon. Profile, courses and projects.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Education Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous Education "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 Education Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. -- Flannery O'Connor Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Education "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Education Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley 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 Education [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Education "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Education My other wife is beautiful. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous 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 Education A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Education Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Education "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Education Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Education You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Education The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Education The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Education Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed I am become death, shatterer of worlds. -- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Education If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Education In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "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) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. -- Dave Barry "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Education To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Education
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