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Royal Observatory Edinburgh - City centre observatory with lectures, exhibitions and visitors centre. Includes Astronomy Technology Centre and Edinburgh University's Institute for Astronomy.
The Centre for Advanced Maritime Studies - Offers a wide range of short and long courses tailored to meet the needs of the maritime industry.
Duncan School of Driving - Local driving school. Lists tuition including special student/unemployed rates.
Basil Paterson Edinburgh - School of English offering a variety of courses including English, and TEFL. Also offers a range of subjects for GCSE, Scottish Higher, A2 and AS Level students.
Edinburgh School of Food & Wine - Cooking school west of the city. Courses range from a two semester diploma to a selection of short courses.
Premiere Classe - French tuition and multilingual translation. List French cultural events.
Italian lessons in Edinburgh - Private Italian tuition from a native speaker.
Literacies in the Community - Free courses to help adults improve their reading, writing, number and communication skills. Includes examples of student writing.
Platform in Edinburgh - A learning centre which provides access to free education for adults living in South West Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Learning - Multi-sector partnership to stimulate a culture of lifelong learning. Includes training resource list.
Adult Learning Project - Community education project in Gorgie Dalry area. Conducts community survey to help develop its learning programmes.
George Watson's College - Independent fee paying primary and secondary school with boarding school option. Includes prospectus and reunion information for former pupils.
St Georges School for Girls - Private girls school with boarding school option. Includes mission statement and curriculum information.
Merchiston Castle School - Independent fee paying boys school which includes both a senior and junior school. Provides a range of information on facilities and curriculum.
The Edinburgh Academy - Founded in 1824, is a private day school with boarding facilities for both boys and girls. Accepts online applications for nursery, junior and senior schools.
The Edinburgh Rudolph Steiner School - Private school with independent curriculum for kindergarten, primary and secondary pupils. Documents the application for Steiner education to become state funded in Scotland.
Fettes College - Co-educational independent school in Edinburgh with history, introduction to the college and pictures.
Emaginary Music - Music tuition for guitar and keyboard in varying styles. With contact information.
Little Monkeys - Providing nursery care in a home from home environment with hours to suit modern working parents.
Edinburgh Academical Club - Provides news, information and an online address book to help former Edinburgh Academy pupils stay in touch.
St Margaret's School for Girls - Independent primary and secondary school for girls. Describes their educational priorities and gives an overview of building extension plans.
Paul Boyd Music - Offers modern music tuition covering piano, guitar, bass, theory, composition, MIDI and Cubase.
The Royal Blind School - A national residential school providing for the special educational needs of young people with visual impairments. Details of courses and facilities.
RoadWise School of Motoring - Providing theory and practical driving tuition in Edinburgh and the surrounding areas.
Michael Wilson Driver Training - Offering driving tuition covering all aspects of driving from Learners to advanced and defensive driving principles. Listing learner and advanced course information and prices included.
Driving's Cool - Driving school giving lessons in trendy cars. Offers students discounts and recruitment information for instructors.
Stockbridge School Board and PTA - Parent information for this Primary School, with Board meeting minutes, event notices and a newsletter.
Cranley Nursery - Private nurseries for preschool children in Colinton and Craiglockhart, with HM Inspectorate report and classroom pictures
Lpass School of Motoring - Learn to drive with Rachel Colvin qualified ADI. Refresher and motorway lessons also available.
Edinburgh Language School - Offers english language tuition.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Education Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Education I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Education If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Education There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. -- Fred Astaire Education Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Education "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Education Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings 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 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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Education If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Education The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Education If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Education People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Education And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Education First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that. -- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Education He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Education Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Education "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Education Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed Education Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov Education
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