Summerhill School - Provides a prospectus and the school Ofsted report.
Church of the Ascension Primary School - Provides information from the school's Ofsted report and samples of the children's work. Located in Wall Heath.
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Education
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Education Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Education
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "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) Education To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Education
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 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 Education
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Education The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Education We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Education
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Education I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Education
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Education Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
