Sefton Learning - Information, help and advice on studying and training for 16 to 19 year-olds. Including the courses and locations of sixth-form colleges and training providers.
Sefton Music Service - Providing instrumental and vocal tuition, opportunities for ensemble playing, and teaching support for local schools and their pupils. Information about music centres, events such as concerts and workshops, their services and youth ensembles.
Sefton Council: Education and Learning - Information about council's Children, Schools and Families Service (CSFS). Includes details of state schools, services and financial assistance.
Sefton Complementary Education Service - Offers education to children outside schools, such as asylum seekers, travellers, and school-age mothers. Includes resources and information about services.
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "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 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "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
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "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 more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 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 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Education
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Education "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Education
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Education However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Education Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Education
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Education Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Education Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Education
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Education "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Education
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Education The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Education
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Education "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Education
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Education He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
