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Music for Teachers - Free support materials for planning and teaching the music National Curriculum in England.
Countywide Driving School - Has driving instructor training centres in Brighton, Gatwick, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds, London, Portsmouth, Southampton and Wakefield with driving schools for learners.
American Community School - Facilities for students from 3-18 years old. The flexible curriculum is designed to facilitate the easy transition back to schools in America and other countries. Campuses in Egham, Cobham, and Hillingdon.
Philosophy in Practice - Provides details of public courses in philosophy available at centres in the North of England. Includes enrolment, cost and contact details.
Musical Minis - Music group for babies and toddlers of ages ranging from six months to pre-school. Profile of the company, franchise opportunities and details of locations, class times and contacts.
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) - Promotes and funds teaching and research in higher education institutions. Includes general information and sections on finance, good practice and research.
Connexions Card - Details of rewards and discounts available to 16-19 year olds who undertake ongoing education or personal development activities.
General Teaching Council for England - Regulates the teaching profession and aims to raise the public status of teaching and learning. Provides general information, news, research and a search facility.
Midlands History Forum - Voluntary organisation supporting the teaching of history in all sectors and educational providers throughout the Midlands. Details of conferences and contact.
National Learning Network - National partnership programme aiming to increase the uptake of Information and Learning Technology (ILT) across post-16 education in England.
Way to Learn - Supports adult learning with information on education and training courses. Includes advice about courses, voluntary work and qualifications.
West of England Ministerial Training - An ecumenical and regional training scheme with centres in Bristol, Gloucester and Hereford. Information about Ordination training, Reader training in Gloucester and Hereford, Methodist Foundation Training, Certificate in Christian Studies awarded by Cheltenham and Gloucester College and Exploring Vocation Course.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "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') 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 Education Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Man and wife make one fool. A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West Education "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball 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) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Education I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Education While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Education Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Education "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Education Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Education "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Education "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Education After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Education My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln 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 Unhappy Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern Education No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Education I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde 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 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Education Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Education "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce Education The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Education
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