The Football Association
The Football Association (FA) is England football’s governing body and was formed in 1863.
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The Football Association (FA) is England football’s governing body and was formed in 1863.
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Light up the darkness."
"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."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"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."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"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."
"I am still learning."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"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."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."