POA Learning

POA Learning is the learning arm of the Prison Officers Association (POA).

POA Learning

We offer a large range of courses: including Functional Skills in English, Maths and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Level 2 Distance Learning Courses. A Matrix© accredited Information and Careers guidance is available through our network of Union Learning Reps based in our National network of Learning Centres in England.

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Malcolm Forbes

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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Chinese Proverb

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Socrates

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Albert Einstein

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Richard Branson

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Leonardo da Vinci

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

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Princess Ramirez

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Mahatma Gandhi

"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."

Marvin Minsky

"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Confucius

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Oscar Wilde

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."

Albert Einstein

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Oprah Winfrey

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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Eartha Kitt

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

Jimi Hendrix

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Sarah Caldwell

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Rudyard Kipling

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Chinese Proverb

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Brian Herbert

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin

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B.B. King

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

Pablo Picasso

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Confucius

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W.B. Yeats

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Phil Collins

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Brian Tracey

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Will Durant

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Paulo Coelho

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Plutarch

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Allan Bloom

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Isaac Asimov

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George Whitman

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Sophocles

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Benjamin Franklin

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Michelangelo, age 87

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Aristotle

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Henry Ford

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Yoda

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John Dewey

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Anton Chekhov

"Light up the darkness."

Bob Marley