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Learning and Teaching Scotland - Scottish education body. Advises on pre-school/school curriculum, ICT in education and lifelong learning. Develops software. Provides resources and training.
Scottish Further Education Unit - Provides support and advice to Scottish Further Education colleges to help them tackle operational and developmental issues.
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council - Provides funding and general information on all Universities in Scotland.
Scottish Qualifications Authority - National body in Scotland responsible for the development, accreditation, assessment, and certification of qualifications other than degrees. Provides a wide range of information on qualifications and educational centres.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Education 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 Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Education Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright "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) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Education Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Education If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Education In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Education The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Education He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn Rand Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov Education The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "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) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France Education "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton 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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Education "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Education Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Education "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Education I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Education "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Education I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) May you never leave your marriage alive. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain Education It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Education
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