Mrs S Boyle

“I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,” Miss Brodie had told them at that time, “and all my pupils are the crème de la crème.”

(Muriel Spark – “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”)

Ms Cunningham 

"Good teaching is one quarter preparation and three quarters theatre." 

(Gail Godwin)
 
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the startling defects in other people's characters." 

(Margaret Halsey)

Mr Noakes

'For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain 'the sublime'
In the old sense. Wrong from the start -

No, hardly, but seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for the factitious bait;

Idmen gar toi panth'hos eni Troiei'

(Ezra Pound)

Mr L Docherty

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky and in the middle you see the blue centre light pop and everybody goes 'Aww!' "

(“On The Road” by Jack Kerouac)

Mr J Doherty

Principal Skinner: That's two independent thoughts in one day. Willie, the children are over-stimulated. Remove all the coloured chalk from the classrooms.

Mrs Rutt

' It filled a minute.  But was there ever
 A time of such quality, since or before...?
(Thomas Hardy)  

Ms N Gorvin

'I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.' ''
('To Kill a Mockingbird' By Harper Lee)

Mrs K Fernie

"Tomorrow I will go home to my island, trying to put a world into forgetfulness. I will lift a fistful of its earth in my hands or I will sit on a hillock of the mind, watching 'the shepherd with his sheep'.

There will ascend (I presume) a thrush. A dawn or two will rise. A boat will be lying in the glitter of the western sun: and water will be running through the world of the similes of my intelligence."

(Iain Crichton Smith “Going Home”)

Mrs S Aldous

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair.  They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

(PG Woodhouse)