Cowley Hill Primary School - School profile, newsletter, diary, Parent and Teachers information and children's work.
The Hillside School - A secondary school of about 650 students on roll aged between 13 & 18 years.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Education Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Education
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Education
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Education
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Education "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Education
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Education "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Education
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "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) Education "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Education
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Education
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Education I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Education Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man and wife make one fool. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Education Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Education
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Education A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
