About the event
Annual National Conference. Topics to be covered are Devolution; the Post-16 Skills Review; Integration; Funding; Online developments and the Functional Skills Reform.
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"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."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"I am still learning."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"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 not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Light up the darkness."