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Go Wild - Wakefield Internet Learning Domain. Resources for teachers, special educational needs, governors. Showcase of pupil work, from infant school through to post-16.
Wakefield College - Information on courses, services to businesses, learning resources, careers service, and public facilities. Also an events diary.
Wakefield District Learning Partnership - Information on a group of organisations working to develop post-16 education and training. Downloadable copy of Education Plan for Wakefield, description of current projects, news and events, and contact details.
University of Leeds in Wakefield - Details of professional courses and qualifications in counselling offered in the School of Continuing Education within Bretton Hall.
Signpost Direct in Wakefield - Adult learning and training advice providers. Information about the service, search facility and a feedback form.
Wakefield Grammar School Foundation - Collection of private schools in the area, with a profile of each school and its policies.
Pennine Camphill Community - Therapeutic community and college offering education and training, residential and day services for young adults with learning difficulties. Information on activities, facilities, and volunteer opportunities.
Wakefield U3A - University of the Third Age group in Wakefield - information on activities, courses and membership for people over 55 of age. Includes a newsletter.
Wakefield Parent Partnership Service - Independent advice, information and support for parents of children with special educational needs.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Education "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Education I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Education Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach Education You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Education "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Education "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. -- Antonio Porchi Education "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Education "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Education Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard Education blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Education Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Education They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Education "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Education Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson 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 Education "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Education If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Education "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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Education Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana Education Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Education If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. -- James Thurber Education
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