Human Scale Education - Educational charity promoting small schools and small classes. Background to the charity, their objectives, events and project news.
Chew Valley School - Comprehensive school for 11-18 year olds. Prospectus, newsletters, events, summary of OFSTED report and contacts.
Stanton Drew Primary School - Information for parents and children about the school and its activities, includes brief overview of the village and story of the nearby ancient stones.
Sacred Heart Preparatory School - Provides an introduction to the school with details of facilities, fees, calendar and noticeboard.
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Education
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Education 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 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 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Education
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Education Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Education
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Education By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Education
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Education
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Education Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Education The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Education
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Education One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Education
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Education Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Education
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Education If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Education Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Education
