"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.177, Wordsworth Editions
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