Merthyr Tydfil Education Site - Documents and information about raising standards in Merthyr Tydfil schools. Includes a directory of schools in the area, and details of lifelong learning provisions.
Merthyr Tydfil College - Includes online prospectus, staff directory, and forthcoming events.
Caedraw Primary School - Information about the surrounding area, history of the school, staff and pupils, and school activities.
Pen y dre High School - An 11-18 mixed-sex comprehensive school situated in the town of Merthyr Tydfil.
Twynydrodyn Junior School - Information about the school, location, curriculum and extra curriculum activies.
Greenfield Special School - Sections on location, curriculum, staff, pupils, governors, background and further resources.
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Education
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Education The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Education
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Education The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Education The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Education
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Education I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Education
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Education "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Education Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Education
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Education Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Education
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Education "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) 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 What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Education
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle 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 Nietzsche Education "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Education
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Education Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Education
