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Sunderland High School - Independent school for children aged 2 to 18. School news and information, admissions policy, curriculum and exam results.
First Steps Kindergarten - Profile, prospectus, fees, virtual tour and information about vacancies.
Springwell Dene School - A school specialising in education for children with educational difficulties. School news and staff, OFSTED and performance reports.
Sunderland City Learning Centre - Works with schools and the community to provide education through the use of technology. Profile, services and facilities.
City of Sunderland College - Information about the college's courses and services.
Children with Disabilities in Sunderland - Organisation offering support for children, parents and carers of children with disabilities. Describes current activities, partners and how to get involved.
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Education In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." 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The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor Education Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Education In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Education "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Education Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "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) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Education Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Education Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Education He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Education Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. -- Maya Angelou Education No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Education "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Education Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Education The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Education "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Education Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Education There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Education If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Education "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing. -- 'Doc' Edgerton Education
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