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Time to teach - An independent campaign to raise standards and improve the quality of primary education.
Edexhell - Success through Disqualification - Campaigning for the examination board Edexcel to be investigated by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, after a series of errors in papers, marking and information. Petition, timeline and other campaign details.
British Education in Chaos - The OCR grade-fixing scandal, Edexcel's erroneous papers and AQA's marking errors.
BBC - Schools - Bullying - Information and resources to help combat bullying, with details on how bullies are using mobile phones to target their victims.
Action on Rights for Children - in Education - Network of people committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It supports the rights of children to have their views on educational issues which affect them considered within the family, within schools and at national level in future planning and decision-making.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Education You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Education I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Education "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Education "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Education In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Education NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Education "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -- Marcus Aurelius He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Education When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Education We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke Education The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -- H. L. Mencken Education "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Education I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Education Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. -- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Education A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni Education "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Education "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Education 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 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Education Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Education "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 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. -- Education
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