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