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