"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
""Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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