Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Quote by William Butler Yeats
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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William Butler Yeats Quotes
- Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
- We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- And say my glory was I had such friends.
- I have spread my dreams under your feet
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
- Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
- Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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