About the event
Explore issues encountered by those whose work brings them into contact with families faced with an uncertain future for their newborn.
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"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."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"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."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"I am still learning."
"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."
"Light up the darkness."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"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."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."