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Lighting of a fire

  • Writer: Mr Thinktivity
    Mr Thinktivity
  • Mar 2, 2016
  • 1 min read

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

-William Butler Yeats

Should we not evoke passion and interest in a child's heart, instead of burying it with fears and expectations, or extinguishing it by feeding them like a pig?

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