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