Langley School - An LEA Maintained Special Primary school for boys and girls aged 3 to 11 with moderate learning difficulties
Plantsbrook School - A school for year 7 onwards including a Technology College
Highclare School - Located on three sites between Erdington and Sutton Coldfield, the school offers places from nursery through to sixth form. Predominately teaching girls, co-educational places are offered up to three years old and in the sixth form. Requires Flash.
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Education Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Education "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Education
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Education Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Education
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Education There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) 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 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 Education "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Education
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "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) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Education I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Education Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Education
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Education "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Education
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Education Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Education You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Education
