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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal. – Clarence Thomas

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of mans future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individuals total development lags behind? – Maria Montessori

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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. – John W. Gardner

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