About the event
Annual National Conference. Topics to be covered are Devolution; the Post-16 Skills Review; Integration; Funding; Online developments and the Functional Skills Reform.
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"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."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"I am still learning."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Light up the darkness."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"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."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"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."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."