Parallel Parents is an independent fostering agency that has been established for over 25 years. We are a family owned and run agency, and believe that our child-focused approach makes us really stand out from other agencies.
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"I am still learning."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Light up the darkness."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"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."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"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."
"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 the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."