"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.2, Library of Alexandria
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