Heart of the Matter
I found out about this Friday meme over at Heart of the Matter where you post your thoughts about the following quote.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
I love this imagery for a couple of reasons. A fire being is active versus a pail that is static. The pail is filled by someone else where as a fire consumes its own fuel and if you don't provide it, it will reach out and grab it if it is near. A pail is the same filled or empty, but a fire will die without fuel. A pail can only carry so much but a fire can burn forever.
The imagery of the fire is what I desire for my children. It isn't about individual facts but a love for learning and a yearn for more. The unquenchable fire.....
So what do you think?
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
I love this imagery for a couple of reasons. A fire being is active versus a pail that is static. The pail is filled by someone else where as a fire consumes its own fuel and if you don't provide it, it will reach out and grab it if it is near. A pail is the same filled or empty, but a fire will die without fuel. A pail can only carry so much but a fire can burn forever.
The imagery of the fire is what I desire for my children. It isn't about individual facts but a love for learning and a yearn for more. The unquenchable fire.....
So what do you think?
Labels: child rearing, Homeschoooling
posted by NerdMom at
1:12 PM
2 Comments:
Great thoughts. I love your idea that the fire reaches out to grab fuel if none is available!
By
Celly B, at 4:03 PM
The problem I have is not the quote itself, but how it is often twisted by educrats to promote an anti-intellectual agenda. "Child-centered" education doesn't have to mean "dumbed-down" but that's frequently how it's put into practice in government-run schools. I suspect John Dewey would be appalled at how his ideas have been used to justify all kinds of bad educational policy.
By
Crimson Wife, at 9:49 PM
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