"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
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Source: The Second Coming l. 18 (1921)
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