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