We believe that the role of local government is crucial in creating and managing everyday places that work for everyone. To achieve this it must be well resourced with diverse, placemaking skills, and the right support to lead the way.
"It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"We are born not to be perfect, but to learn and reflect from imperfections"
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."
"Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can. There will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
"Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning."
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
"I had six honest men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who."
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it."
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
"I am still learning."
"Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information."
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
"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."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
"All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher."
"Education is not preparation; education is life itself."
"You do not learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
"Light up the darkness."
"Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get."
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."
"It is the art of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom."
"Gold has a price, but learning is priceless."
"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."
"Education's responsibility is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
"Much to learn, you still have."
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life."
"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."
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way."