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