Education Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: England :::: Oxfordshire :::: Abingdon :::: Education ::

Education Links

European School Culham - International school which provides bilingual education at nursery, primary and secondary levels.
Abingdon Kumon Study Centre - Self-paced maths and English study complementing schoolwork. Details of the centre and technique and how to enrol.
Culham College Institute - Research, information and development organisation, based in Abingdon.
Triple Alliance - Providing english language study and cultural visits. Includes online brochure, with pictures and contact information.
The English Tutorial Centre Oxford - Located in Marcham, this school offers english language courses at different levels for international students. Includes accommodation, travel, courses, fees, examinations, agents, business english courses, school and university placements, enquiry form and contact details.
Abingdon School - The study area of the Abingdon School intranet.
Drivetrain - High performance courses aimed at developing new skills in car handling and raising overall driving standards.
Unofficial Fitzharrys School Website - Forum. General information, forum and pictures.
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce Education "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Education If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Education "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. -- George Jean Nathan Education Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Education "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Education Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Education "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Education I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Education In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Education "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Education To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Education Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf 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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Education Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Education "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Education A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Education
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |