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South Yorkshire Key Skills Passport - A scheme to help young people between the age of 13 and 16 work towards the key skills qualification. Newsletters, levels, news, skills, contacts, glossary, resources, downloads, pilot schools, quiz, gallery and links.
One to One Tutors - Provide tutors and tuition in the North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire area.
Learning Pays - Learning in South Yorkshire - A project working with local learning providers in South Yorkshire to aid people getting into learning for life. Site includes organisational information and contact details.
Yorkshire Adult School Union - Provides adult education through informal, self-help discussion groups. Includes information about the organisation, news and contacts.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Education You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Education Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Education "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Education When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson "... 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) Education The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Education In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. -- Jean de La Fontaine Education Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn 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 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Education Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Education Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Education Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Education Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. -- P. J. O'Rourke "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Education Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Education Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Education "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Education "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Education >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be Education I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Education Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Education History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Education
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