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