The Learning Tree - Providing preschool education for the children in the Muxton Area. Includes newsletters and children's games.
Randlay Primary School and Nursery - Information, links and activities for pupils, teachers and parents together with access to OFSTED report.
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Education "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Education
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Education
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Education
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Education There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Education
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 Education
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Education An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Education
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Education Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Education
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Education
"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." If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "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) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education
