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