Govilon Primary School - State school for Infant and Junior children between the ages of 4 and 11. Includes list of staff, examples of class work, and information about clubs.
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Education
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Education Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Education
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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Education "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Education
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Education To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "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) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Education
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Education You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education "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) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Education "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Education
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Education The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Education Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Education
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "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) Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Education
