Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.

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"The earth is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

- W.B. Yeats

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"but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps."

- W.B. Yeats

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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

Education

"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

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