Unofficial Coventry School Guide - Guide for parents selecting a secondary school. With performance figures, contact details and placement information and advice.
City College Coventry - Education and training for students. Equal access to all sections of the community.
Barkers' Butts School - Long since demolished, the school now has a resting place on the Internet.
Henley College - Further education college with business centre. Offers distance learning courses.
Coventry Teachers Association - National Union of Teachers organisations represents over 1,500 teachers in the city.
Abacus Tuition - Private Maths and English tuition in Earlsdon.
Fuzzers - History of Barkers Butts School and Coundon Court School. Postbag, news, links and a forum to enable ex-pupils to find each other.
HTI National Leadership Centre - Improving leadership skills in schools by helping to form links between schools and business organisations. Lists products and services and contact details.
Rocking Horse Kindergarten - Nursery care for children aged 0-5 years. Details of daily routines for each age group, with contact information.
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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-- John Powell "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Education Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Education
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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-- Oscar Wilde I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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-- Anne S Education "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Education
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-- Robert Boynton Education I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Education
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
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"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Education Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Education
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Education He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Education
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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-- Aldous Huxley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Education
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Education Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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-- Robert Flaherty Education
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Education If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Education
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Education This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
