Papa Westray Community School - Details of the tiny island school, with a photograph and self-portraits of its six pupils.
Firth School - A village school on the shores of Firth Bay in Orkney, surrounded by the sea, hills, woods and the open air. It's not surprising that one of the specialities is conservation.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Education
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "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 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Education "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Education I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Education "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Education
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Education "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Education
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Education In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Education
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Education The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Education
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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' 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 a Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Education
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Education Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "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) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Education
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Education Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education
