About the event
This conference is designed to help equip education professionals with key support skills and improve confidence when responding to bereavement.
"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."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"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."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"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."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"I am still learning."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"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."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Light up the darkness."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."