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