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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats 
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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