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