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English Homestay - One to one English language tuition with graduate teacher in a family home near Canterbury.
Support Kent Schools - Campaigners to preserve excellent education in the county. News, background and membership information.
Kent Education and Libraries Strategic Directorate - Performance tables and reports, youth and community information and library and museum information.
Stop The Eleven Plus - Campaign against the 11+ examinations in Kent.
Kent National Grid for Learning - Provides teaching resources, links and contacts.
Canterbury Environmental Education Centre - A virtual tour of nature reserves in Kent, teacher resources, children's section and relevant links.
Kent and the Wider World - A Development Education Centre fostering global perspectives, and raising awareness of links between Kent and Medway and other parts of the world. Details of training and workshops offered, and of resource centre.
World Education Development Group (Kent) - Information about activities, resources and training for teachers and others promoting global citizenship.
Channel Rider Training - Offers motorcycle training courses from compulsory basic training to instructor training. Centres in Folkestone and Ashford. Includes courses, booking form and price list, and motorcycling resource library.
Kent Health and Education Partnership - Provide information to make schools healthier, in areas such as bullying, drugs, sex, eating and physical safety. Includes sections for parents, teachers and pupils, action plans, and information about the programme and national standards.
Kent Children's University - Aims to support learning by offering primary school children out of school hours learning opportunities. Includes profile, family learning days, FAQ and previous courses.
G and M Driving School - Driving instruction from male or female instructors, in Sheppey, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Whitstable, Herne Bay and Canterbury. Includes services, prices and contact form.
Kent's Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership - Aims to provide a local integrated planning forum for early education. Includes partnership details, newsletters, information for parents, childcare search, resources, training and job opportunities.
Emerald School of Motoring - Intensive and residential driving courses based in Herne Bay and Canterbury. Includes details of courses with prices.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic "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 The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Education Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Education "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Education 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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Education "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Education A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Education "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) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley Education Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Education Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Education The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Education "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Education I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Education He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Education Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. -- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Education He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams 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) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Education
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