Founded by Matt Sparling in 2015, MJS Safeguarding was established to support professionals in all things safeguarding. The aim of MJS Safeguarding is to help make navigating the world of Safeguarding as practical and as manageable as possible.
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"I am still learning."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"Light up the darkness."
"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."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"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."