St John's C of E (C) Primary School - Includes educational aims, general school information, curriculum, newsletters, term dates and contact details.
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Education It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Education
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Education
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Education Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Education
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Education A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Education
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 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Education When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Education
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Education
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Education
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Education In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Education
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Education
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education
