Montessori School - Offers nursery education for children aged 2 years 9 months to 5 years. Profile, curriculum, information for parents and OFSTED report.
Priestlands School - Secondary school in Pennington, Lymington. Includes details of the school's prospectus, departmental information, and the school newspaper.
Pennington Infant School - A non-denominational infant school, catering for girls and boys from four to seven years of age. Includes list of events, as well as information about the school.
Hordle Walhampton School - Independent preparatory school for children aged 2 to 13. Information on the school and its facilities, as well as an application form.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Education We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Education
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Education We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Education
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Education I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Education
"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) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Education "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Education
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Education The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) May you never leave your marriage alive. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Education
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Education "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) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Education
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Education "Think off-center." (George Carlin) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "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
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Education Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education
