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