What is Education?

Uncategorized 1 Minute

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

– William Butler Yeats

Yeats’ definition of education is a useful model.

Some believe that the learning process is really a piling on of more and more information.

Yeats points out the opposite.

Because, education, if not sparked by passion, does not endure.

Published by pamelashuggi

Writer, editor and translator, Pamela M. Shuggi, PhD lives and works in Frederick, MD with her cat, Caesar. She is at the beginning of her journey in yoga teacher training. She created her blog, A Reader's Story, in celebration of her love for the humanities.

Published

One thought on “What is Education?”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s