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Ashwell Education Services - Education consultancy offering history and local history courses for schools, adult education classes, in-service training for teachers, conference organisation and the production of teaching materials. Information about the village and a list of publications.
Ashwell Primary School - Describes the school and includes the calendar, events and information about each year
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb 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, Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Education I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Education We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Education "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Education "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Education You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Education "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Education The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Education "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Education If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Education If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Education In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Education The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Education Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Education Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Education "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Education UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Education
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