The Streetly School - 11-18 comprehensive school. Includes prospectus, admissions information, and photographs from previous events.
Streetly Lawn Tennis Club - Provides tennis facilities, social activities, coaching and competitions.
Blackwood School - Children aged 4 - 11. The school is engaged in its own literacy project which is described on the site.
Lindens Primary School - History, staff, newsletter, school calendar, events listing, and pupils' work from each class.
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Streetly blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Streetly
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Streetly The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Streetly
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Streetly 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 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Streetly
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Streetly Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Streetly
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Streetly 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 My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Streetly
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Streetly Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Streetly
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Streetly If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Streetly
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Streetly Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Streetly
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Streetly It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Streetly
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Streetly I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Streetly
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Streetly Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Streetly
