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Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.
Sep 17, 2025
Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
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.
Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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