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Young Enterprise North East - Education charity that creates links between schools and industry. Details of programmes in Northumberland, Sunderland, Durham, Tees Valley and Tyneside.

North East Rehabilitation Officers - Offers encouragement and networking opportunities to support those working with the visually impaired in the region. Details of news, events, contact information and resources.

CourseFinder North East England - Database of full and part-time courses. An initiative run by local Learning and Skills Councils which aims to encourage people to learn by taking relevant training.

Knowledge House - A company owned by the region's universities to develop collaboration between business and academia. Details of funding, programmes, case studies and services offered.

Northern Grid for Learning - A consortium of LEAs in the region working deliver learning over the web. Project details, news of educational content and links to project partners.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos "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) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf "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) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous Education There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana "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) Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Education A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Education When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Education blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Education Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Education "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Education Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Education Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Education Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Education I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein Education 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 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Education A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "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 Education Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "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 was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger 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 "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Education Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde Education Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Education It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Education "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Education Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Education Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George Education
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