A Quote by William Butler Yeats

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Irish - Poet
June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

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

William Butler Yeats

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

Bob Teague

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Bob Nelson

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

William Hague

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Steven Wright

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

Ace Young

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

Candice Olson

Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one.

A. A. Milne

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Bobby Flay

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

John W. Foster

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

Aaron Paul

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance.

Larry Moss

Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop at a time. I’m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I’m just here to love.

Katie Davis

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor.