Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Steel magnate, philanthropist
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Steel magnate, philanthropist
Attributed (often misattributed to Yeats, but Carnegie used it)
Early 20th Century
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