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	The Lake School of English - School teaching English as a second language. Includes courses, dates and fees, accommodation and travel, school background and contact details.
	Eckersley School of English - An "English as a Second Language" school. Provides information on courses, examinations, traveling to the school and FAQs.
	The Oxford Montessori Centre - Nursery and primary schools and teacher training centre.
	English Language Training for Business - Bob Lewis provides training at this school. Includes location, courses, accommodation, social activities, fees and contact details.
	Oxford Development Education Centre - A voluntary organisation that promotes positive social change through education.
	Oxfordshire Learning Partnership - A group of local organisations working in partnership for the learning present and future of Oxfordshire.
	King's School - An "English as a Second Language" school. Includes overview of the school, information on courses, accommodations, social programmes and exams.
	Oxford House School of English - School in Wheatley providing English language courses. Includes courses offered, dates and fees, accommodations, examinations, booking form and contact information.
	Oxford Tutorials - Language school and tutorial college specialising in one-on-one instruction and small groups. Includes courses offered, tuition, holidays, fees, activities and contact information.
	International Study Centre - Run by Albion International Education Limited, this centre provides schooling, counselling and placement for internation students in schools and universities. Includes programmes, accommodation, activities, guardianship, fees and contact details.
	Swan School of English - School teaching English language to international students. Includes school information, courses, enruiy form and contact details.
	Dutch Language School - Provides a range of Dutch language courses and tuition for every level either on site or through correspondance. Includes information on course available, private tuition as well as details on the school and teaching staff.
	Oxford University Student Union - News from OUSU and information for current and prospective students.
	Oxford School of Music - Circle of professional musicians offering tuition in all options and styles. Includes teachers profiles and contact details.
	OPAL Boarding School - Courses in academic English language in preparation for A level study and British university, offered by boarding school.
	Oxford Science Studies - A group of tutors from Oxford Universityoffers A-level and GCSE revision courses. Profile, courses, fees and calendar.
	MSM Professional - Driving school. Describes its courses with tips, news and FAQ.

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B. White Education When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Education I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Education "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol 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 Education "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries Education "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Education Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Education The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Education "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Education Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Education To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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 you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Education There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Education "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Education Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Education Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Education Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Education Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." 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