Bowring Comprehensive School - A prospectus with information about policies and curriculum, plus links to educational resources.
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Education
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Education Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Education
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Education
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Education Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Education Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Education The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Education
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Education
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 What's new? Most of my wife. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Education There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Education
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Education Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Education The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Education
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Education The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Education
