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Coleg Menai - Further education college. Features news and projects, courses offered a student area and local events.
Ysgol Tryfan - Welsh-medium seconary school: Features a prospectus, sports, and the parent-teacher assosiation.
Hillgrove School - Showing a brief history, fees and contact information.
Bangor Archaeological Society - The students at Bangor University give some information on the university and a list of the society's lectures.
Ysgol Glancegin - Primary school: Features an introduction and history. Also includes some of the childrens work.
Bangor Dyslexia Unit - Contains an introduction to the unit, education, student support, research, publications, and list of personnel.
World Education Centre - A Development Education Centre in the University of Wales, Bangor. Information on services, resources and training available to promote world citizenship in north Wales.
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison Education blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Education A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. -- Mae West "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Education "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Education "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet Education I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Education Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "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) Education The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Education The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Education Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James Education "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown Education The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Education You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Education Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education "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, A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Education "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston Education
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