The UK public elects 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to represent their interests and concerns in the House of Commons. MPs consider and propose new laws, and can scrutinise government policies by asking ministers questions about current issues either in the Commons Chamber or in Committees.
"I am still learning."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"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."
"Light up the darkness."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."