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