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St Teresa's - Girls' boarding and day senior school, 11 - 18 age range.

The Academy of Contemporary Music - Offers courses covering guitar, bass, drums, vocals and music production. Includes downloadable course list.

Malcolm Neave - ICT consultant.

Brookwood Primary School - Provides comprehensive information for new and existing parents, pupils and teachers.

Moon Hall School for Dyslexic Children - Offers all the advantages of a specialist school for dyslexic children, but none of the potential difficulties sometimes associated with very small classes. Located in Holmbury St Mary.

St Bede's C of E Junior School - Church of England Junior school in Send.

Surrey Bridges - Provides a portal to work experience opportunities for students in Surrey. The site provides projects, course descriptions, links to other useful sites and information for schools, business and volunteers.

Belmont Preparatory School - A family run school for boys and girls aged 3-14 years, day pupils and weekly boarders (no Saturday School) at Holmbury St Mary, Dorking.

Box Hill School - The school follows the philosophy of Dr Kurt Hahn, the founder of Gordonstoun in Scotland and Salem in Germany, both now sister schools of Box Hill. Located at Mickleham, Dorking.

Ash Manor - County maintained mixed comprehensive school of 970 pupils, aged 11-16 years. It employs over 50 teachers, supported by administrative, ancillary and technical staff. Located in Ash.

Common Entrance Religious Studies Support - Information on the revised syllabus.

Surrey Training and Enterprise Council - Free impartial information, advice, guidance and signposting on training, job seeking (vacancy database - free advertising for employers), childcare and funding to help people in and around Surrey make the most of the opportunities available to them.

Cheam Common Junior School - Three form entry school for children at Key Stage 2. Includes news, information and guestbook.

Surreynet - Education forum for Surrey teachers, educators and county advisors.

Surrey SATRO (Science and Technology Regional Organisation) - Boosts young peoples' understanding of science, technology, engineering and industry, particularly by helping to build closer working relationships between schools and industry.

University of Surrey Students Union - Contains bulletin board to post messages on and useful information for students.

Safe Routes to Schools - County Council project to support safe travel to school on foot or by bicycle. Describes the scheme with road safety advice.

Language and Music for Life - Two week residential or day course in music and languages. Course information, registration, and contacts in English, Français Deutsch, Italiano, Castellano, Russian, Japanese, and Cesky.

Frensham Heights - A fully coeducational HMC day and boarding school for 300 pupils aged 11-18, with its own nursery and junior school, St George's, for pupils aged 4-10. Located in Rowledge.

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Education Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes 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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Education Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Education We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Education All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Education Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Education I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University Education There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -- Carol Leifer He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Education Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Education 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. -- Anonymous Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Education I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Education "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson Education "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Education Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Education "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
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