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