About the event
Explore issues encountered by those whose work brings them into contact with families faced with an uncertain future for their newborn.
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"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."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"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."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Light up the darkness."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"I am still learning."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"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."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."