[PW] Yeats & Education

[S M Colowick]

I don't know where he wrote/said "Education is not the filling of a
pail, but the lighting of a fire.", but he may have been paraphrasing
Plutarch:

"For the mind requires not like an earthen vessel to be filled up;
convenient fuel and aliment only will inflame it with a desire of
knowledge and ardent love of truth." - On the Hearing of Lectures
(http://www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com/plutarch/moralia/on_hearing.htm)

smc

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:46 PM, George Casler <george.casler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have done a Google on +Yeats +'filling pails' got 1 return
>  Got 204 returns for +Yeats +'lighting fires'
>
>  But none of these told where Yeats wrote (or said) this. Can someone here help?
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