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