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