‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire’: It’s an inspiring quote, but did WB Yeats say it?

“At a conference in the US I heard the keynote speaker quote William Butler Yeats: ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire’. I liked the quote …” (more)

[Robert Strong, Irish Times, 15 October]

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