Daventry Tertiary College - Aim to develop and extend the opportunities for education, training and employment in the community which they serve, by providing high quality learning and training experiences.
Newnham Primary School - Accepting children from reception to 11, mainly from Newnham parish, Daventry District
Southbrook Junior School - Serves children aged 7 - 11 at Key Stage 2 and is located on a shared site with Southbrook Nursery and Infant School and Danetre School (Daventry)
Kilsby School - Site also includes local history and current affairs for the village of Kilsby, Nothamptonshire.
Drivecraft - Driver training. Includes information about courses offered.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Education Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Education May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Education
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Education Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Education
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Education I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "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 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Education
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Education I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Education
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Education He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Education
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Education The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Education
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Education Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford 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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Education
