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