Cwmpadarn School - Good site with extensive information about the school, including details of the staff, curriculum and the PTA.
Penglais School - Aberystwyth's English medium comprehensive school. Includes an online prospectus, school newsletter and departmental links including A-level history resources.
Coleg Ceredigion - Main focus is the college prospectus. Includes information about further and continuing education and training in Ceredigion.
Penweddig School / Ysgol Penweddig - This Welsh-medium school's site offers an online prospectus, a school tour and details of activities, results and support services.
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Education The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Education
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Education
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Education In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Education The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Education
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Education Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Education
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Education
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Education My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Education I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Education
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Education
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Education He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Education
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Education
