Droitwich Spa High School - Co-educational state comprehensive for students 12-18, includes prospectus, revision materials for each subject area, revision links, careers and higher education links, and student personal pages.
Westlands First School - Includes school aims and curriculum, class pages, gallery of pupils' work, and a calendar of events.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Education Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Education "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Education
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Education Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Education "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Education
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "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) Education Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Education
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Education Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Man and wife make one fool. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Education Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Education
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Education Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
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 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West 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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Education Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Education
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Education The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Education
