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North Atlantic Fisheries College - Industry-managed institute dedicated to supporting the fisheries industry (fish catching, aquaculture and processing) through training, and research and development. Based in Scalloway.
Fair Isle School - A one teacher school situated on Fair Isle, south of Shetland.
Lunnasting Primary School - Newly rebuilt school in Vidlin, north-east Mainland.
Hamnavoe Primary School - Situated on Burra Isle, west of the Mainland. The school provides education for children between the ages of 5 and 11. Also offers a playgroup.
Mid Yell Junior High School - Site designed largely by the pupils for a school on the island of Yell (part of the Shetland Isles).
Baltasound Junior High School - The most northerly school in Britain. The School provides Primary education for the village of Baltasound, and Secondary education for children from the districts of Baltasound, Uyeasound and Haroldswick.
Anderson High School - Comprehensive secondary school in Lerwick. Information on school, newsletters and calendar.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Education I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Education Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Education I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane 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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Education "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence "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) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Education Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Education Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Education Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Education Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Education When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland Education I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Education All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Education In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Education "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Education Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous 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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Education "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Education Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 Education The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston "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) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Education We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Education He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Education
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