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