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