About the event
Annual National Conference. Topics to be covered are Devolution; the Post-16 Skills Review; Integration; Funding; Online developments and the Functional Skills Reform.
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"I am still learning."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"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."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"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."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."