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Source of a William Butler Yeats quotation.

heartofwhite · 2008-02-27 14:38:00

Hi all, I hope this is the right area for this. I need a bit of help. Yeats once said, "Education is not about filling a bucket but lighting a fire". I want to know where he said this! I cannot find the source and it is driving me mad! Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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27-02-2008 3:38pm

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heartofwhite

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Hi all,

I hope this is the right area for this. I need a bit of help. Yeats once said,

"Education is not about filling a bucket but lighting a fire".

I want to know where he said this! I cannot find the source and it is driving me mad! Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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#2 27-02-2008 8:50pm
Earthhorse

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Don't think you're going to have much luck with that, sorry.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Butler_Yeats

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#3 28-02-2008 5:36pm
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures

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