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