Wyke Regis C.E.(V.C) Junior. School - School for 7-11 year olds particularly successful in enriching the curriculum through planned visits, residential experiences and an excellent range of extra curricular activities.
Beechcroft Infants School - For children of varied educational abilities. Also has special facilities for children with disabilities.
St Johns C Of E School - The school has 360 children between the age of 5 and 11 years. St John's has "aided" Church Of England status which means it is controlled by the church but aided by the Dorset Education Authority.
Budmouth Technology College - Grant maintained school for 11-18 year olds in Weymouth with a sixth form. Site includes resources for students, parents and teachers.
St Andrew's Primary School - Children's work, calendar dates and prospectus details, and links to games and educational fun for pupils and teachers.
Weymouth College - Information on courses and what the college is like to attend
Thornlow Preparatory School - Co-educational independent day school for 3-13 years. Also has a department to support dyslexic students.
Westfield Technology College - The largest maintained special school, catering for children aged 3 to 16 years who have moderate learning difficulties. Includes prospectus.
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Education Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Education
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Education The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Education
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Education This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Education Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Education
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 Education A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Education
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "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) Education Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Education
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Education "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Education
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 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Education The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Education A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Education
