Mayflower County High School - We aim to be a caring community in which all individuals are able to learn, grow, contribute and develop self-knowledge and self-respect, with as much enjoyment as possible.
Brightside Junior School - Is 2 form entry, years 3-6 and takes the majority of its children from the adjacent infant school.
School Centered Teacher Training - A group of schools in the Billericay area that have worked together on a range of educational initiatives and projects.
Step-By-Step Preschool - Situated in the local Baptist church building and offers overview, photos, location, people and contact.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Education The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Education It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Education
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Education A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Education
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Education
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Education "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Education Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Education
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Education
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Education "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
"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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Education A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Education
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Education I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Education
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Education
