"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.250, Hayes Barton Press
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