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Brook Lodge Primary School - Includes a prospectus, a copy of their latest OFSTED report, a virtual tour, examples of children's work, diary dates, links, and information about the Tadpoles pre-school group, before/after-school clubs and The Friends of Brook Lodge School.
Rainford High Technology College - Eleven to eighteen school. Includes a prospectus with information about their ethos and ambitions, their use of modern technology, the curriculum, and extra-curricular activities, plus a photographic tour and links by academic subject.
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Education Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous 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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Education "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Education Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "... 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) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Education "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Education Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "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) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I Education The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Education "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education "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) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Education The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Education Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Education Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Education Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Education "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Education If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Education If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Education "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Education Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Education Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Education
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