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We are pleased to hear that our Chinese junior group arrived home safely. We miss you all! We would like to also wish our Chinese students and everyone else a very

Happy Chinese New Year 2012!
‘Year of the Dragon’

In its first year a baby utters a wide range of vocal sounds; at around one year the first understandable words are uttered; at around three years complex sentences are formed; at five years a child possesses several thousand words.

‘We need a metamorphosis of education – from the cocoon a butterfly should emerge. Improvement does not give us a butterfly only a faster caterpillar.’ Learning to Learn

‘No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it. We need to see the world anew.’ Albert Einstein

‘If we always do what we’ve always done, we will get what we’ve always got.’ Adam Urbanski

‘One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar’. Helen Keller

‘Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr

‘Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each others errors….Only a sailor can set them straight’. John Ralston Saul

‘The faithful witness, like…Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent…He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.’ John Ralston Saul

‘It is today we must create the world of the future.’ Eleanor Roosevelt

‘The human mind treats a new idea the way a body treats a strange problem it rejects it.’ Sir Peter Medawar

‘To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.’ Isaac Newton

‘Those who do nothing are never wrong.’ Theodore de Bouville