Gibber - An educational theatre company specialising in performance based workshops for young people and regional schools tours.
North Tyneside Education Technology Centre - Providing IT support, advice, and training staff and pupils in both curriculum and administration software, hardware and curriculum development.
Royal Quays Education Centre - This centre aims to promote and support learning for children in a local urban development context.
Tynemouth College - Information about the college, curriculum, and its resources for students. Located in North Shields.
St Thomas More RC High School - Mixed comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 18. Information on curriculum, teachers, events, ethos, jobs and departments.
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Education A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Education "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Education
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Education
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "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) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Education "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Education
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Education
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Education Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Education
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that 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 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Education The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Education
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House 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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Education Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Education
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Education Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Education
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Education Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Education
