Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats
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You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. – Clay P. Bedford
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. – William Haley
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do. – Margaret Laurence
The golden child may be the oldest one, unless its the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless its the most sensitive. Its not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite – and typically they dont. – Jeffrey Kluger
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words dont go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall
