Cole Heath Project - A collaborative Information Technology project involving 8000 pupils in 17 schools.
Pupilvision - Geography homework help for King Edwards Camp Hill School for boys.
New Outlooks - A Birmingham LEA study into policy and provision for emotial and behavioural problems in schools. Including the paper "A Framework for Intervention".
Bell Heath Study Centre - A centre for environmental and artistic education in partnership with primary schools.
Pupil Watch - A site for both parents and pupils to obtain information about truancy and promote school attendance. It gives contact details for residents of Birmingham and for anyone else who may need help.
The Rage Ensemble - Performing arts company for young people aged 16-19 offering an alternative for those that do not want to go to college. Includes information on GNVQ qualifications available.
Balsall Heath: St Paul's Community Project - Works with the people of Balsall Heath and the wider neighbourhood to promote education, recreation and life-long learning, involving children, young people, and adults.
Swanshurst Training School - Engaged in a project to evaluate initial teacher training, and uptake of teaching methods relating to the use of Information Technology.
Glug Alcohol Education - Provides alcohol education for primary school pupils. Includes teachers' notes and details of road shows.
Enta Training People - Volunteer-based nonprofit providing training programs to homeless people and people with disabilities. Includes program descriptions and news.
Schools Support Service - Voluntary organisation providing group and individual mentors, and bus marshals. Site includes details of services available and the group's vision for the future.
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Eugene McCarthy In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Education To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Education
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Education Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Education
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Education Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Education
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Education Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Education
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Education This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Education Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Education
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Education My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Education "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Education None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Education Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Education
