We believe that the role of local government is crucial in creating and managing everyday places that work for everyone. To achieve this it must be well resourced with diverse, placemaking skills, and the right support to lead the way.
"I am still learning."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"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."
"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 beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"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."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"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."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Light up the darkness."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."