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Explore issues encountered by those whose work brings them into contact with families faced with an uncertain future for their newborn.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"I am still learning."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Light up the darkness."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."