"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
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