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
- I have spread my dreams under your feet
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- 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.
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- An intellectual hate is the worst.
- 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.
- Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Best Quotes
- I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
- How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
- Beware the hobby that eats.
- I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
- They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
- Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
- I normally ignore the History Channel.