We are one of the largest integrated care providers in England. Our 7,000 staff serve a population of around 650,000 people. We provide healthcare services across County Durham and Darlington.
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I am still learning."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"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."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Light up the darkness."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and 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."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."