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

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Source : "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

William Butler Yeats

#Inspirational Quotes #Graduation Quotes #Education Quotes

“The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.”
“A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.”
“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
“Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.”
“I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.”
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.”
“No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.”
“Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer”

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