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