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

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

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

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

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

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

8. The best in everyone

9. Famous failures

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

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

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

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

18. 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.

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

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

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

25. 900 Nobel Laureates Awarded for ‘the greatest benefit to mankind’

27. 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

28. Independent Learning Homework Example