West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has been created to deliver an ambitious plan to drive inclusive economic growth in the West Midlands region and build a healthier, happier, better connected and more prosperous population.
"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's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Light up the darkness."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"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."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"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."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"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."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"I am still learning."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."