St Peters Collegiate School - A voluntary aided technology college for pupils aged 11 - 18. Offers GNVQs as well as GCSE and A levels. The school has close links with Wolverhampton University.
Stow Heath Junior School - Provides an introduction to the school with newsletter, poetry corner and art gallery.
A+ Driving school Ltd - Offers driving tuitions, lessons, theory test and instructor training. Contains a profile and contact details, details for learners and also information on Pass Plus.
Aurelia Training - Offers training for various National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs). Site provides details of the courses available.
Aldersley High School - Secondary school located in Codsall. Detailed prospectus and curriculum information.
Wolverhampton Grammar School - Grammar school for pupils aged from 11 to 18. Resources for existing and prospective students, an online prospectus application form, and information for Old Wulfrunians.
Stow Heath Junior School - Includes news and events, staff and curriculum details, and examples of pupils' work. [some pages may not work in all browsers]
Ophney - Press cuttings and other details of events at the Royal Wolverhampton School from 1958 to 1988.
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.
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Education
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 Unha For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus 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 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Education "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Education
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Education "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Education
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Education Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Education
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Education 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 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Education
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Education A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Education
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon My other wife is beautiful. Education When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Education The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Education
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Education There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education
