Oakfield Middle School - Newsletters, staff list, prospectus, photo tour and governers' report.
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Education The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Education
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 Education "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "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-) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Education
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Education Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Education
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Education Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Education
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Education The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Education People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Education
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Education "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Education "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Education
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Education 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Education
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Education "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Education
