Dauntseys School - Independent school with boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18 attending, half as boarders.
Lavington School - An 11- 16 mixed rural comprehensive school with 630 pupils.
"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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Education The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Education
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Education Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Education
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Education "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Education
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Education Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Education
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Education My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education
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 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Education
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Education Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) 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
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Education
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Education Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Education
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Education blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) 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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Education
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Education When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Education
