About the event
This conference is designed to help equip education professionals with key support skills and improve confidence when responding to bereavement.
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"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."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"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."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"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."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Light up the darkness."
"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."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"I am still learning."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"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."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."