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WEA Yorkshire North District - The Workers' Educational Association is the largest voluntary provider of adult education in the UK. Database of courses for students, events diary, project information, and newsletters for students and tutors.
West and North Yorkshire Open College Network (WNYOCN) - Promotes participation in education and training. Information on qualifications, staff development, activities and partners. [Based in Leeds]
NIACE - Yorkshire and the Humber Region Seminar - Learning and Skills Councils: Opportunities for the Voluntary Sector. Summary of issues raised. From the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. 8th February 2000.
Global Schools - Regional strategy to develop a global perspective in education for Yorkshire and Humberside. Listing of global education resources, and service providers.
Learning Partnerships - Yorkshire & The Humber - Improving the planning and coherence of local post-16 learning by supporting action to widen participation in learning, increase attainment, improve standards and meet the skills challenge, and are contributing to the Government's social inclusion and regeneration agendas.
Rumblekids - Directory of childrens activities and venues in York, Selby and Leeds. Also includes links to nurseries and playgroups.
CallICT - Programme set up by Yorkshire Forward to help increase Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills in the region. News, course search and further information.
Kaleidoscope Day Nurseries Ltd - History and philosophy with details of its sites Leeds and York. Includes curriculum, policies and procedures, and employment opportunities.
Yorkshire and Humberside Metropolitan Academic Network - Provides internet connectivity for educational and research facilities in the region. Includes topology diagrams, list of connected institutions and contacts.
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard 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 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Education Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer Education "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Education "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Education The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Education "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Education "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and Education My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Education We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry Education Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Education I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Education Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Education May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom Education "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Education The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Education I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. -- Aesop It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Education There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Education "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Education
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