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