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
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- I have spread my dreams under your feet
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
- 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.
- An intellectual hate is the worst.
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
- Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
- Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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- Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
- I don't think I'm funny.
- Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
- Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
- You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
- If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'