‘Ideas do not come in a flash but by diligent trial and error experiments that take time and thought’ Charles K Kao

‘If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one’ John Galsworthy

‘Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly’ Linus Pauling

‘If you do not make mistakes, you are not working on hard enough problems and that’s a mistake’ Frank Wilczek

‘If you don’t know where you are going, you are never going to get there’ Henry A Kissinger

‘Knowledge is power, information is liberating, education is the premise of progress in every society and in every family’ Kofi Annan Henry A Kissinger

The best in everyone

Famous failures

After being cut from his High School basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room and cried.

He wasn’t able to speak until he was 4 years old and his teachers said he ‘would never amount to much’.

She was demoted from her job as a news anchor because she ‘was not fit for television’.

He was fired from a newspaper for ‘lacking imagination’ and ‘having no original ideas’.

At the age of 11, he was cut from his team after being diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency which made him smaller than most children of his age.

At 30 years old, he was left devastated and depressed after being removed from the company he started.

They were rejected by Decca Recording Studios who said ‘we don’t like their sound…they have no future in show business.

‘Life is like a light switch, if you don’t switch it on, you will be in darkness forever’

900 Nobel Laureates Awarded for ‘the greatest benefit to mankind’

Independent Learning Week Project based learning at home Freedom to select from wide range of topics Topics will de delivered through all lessons and are available to collect as flyers from student services. Project titles are also on website under more able and talented. To be handed in to tutors after Christmas Practical and creative focus to projects Opportunity to learn independently through research, trial and error and thought

Independent Learning Homework Example