Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

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

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it