Is education the filling of a pail, or the lighting of a fire?
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Both are nice allegories. I think first you got to spark the flame, so to speak. Then it can compare with the continuous filling of that pail, by the way of acquiring knowledge.
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I'd have to say filling of a pail. You're filling someone with knowledge. Fire seems more destructive. I think the lighting of a fire would represent something bad that had an adverse effect on your education, sort of like boiling the water into vapor.
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It's the planting, feeding, watering, and cultivating of a garden.
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For me, education is lighting a fire. It means providing someone with the fuel to keep the fire of learning blazing for the rest of his/her life.
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Filling the pail is memorizing data/acquiring info; Lighting the fire is wisdom
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I would say it's filling the pail. Just soaking up knowledge; taking in as much as one can. Whereas lighting a fire is more demonstrating the wisdom acquired from knowledge.
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Lighting of the fire
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if it's sex education, I think its both although I am unsure in which order.
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well, if you put the pail over the fire you can then fix a nice cup of tea - only then have you actualy learned something uesfull
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If one is lighting the fire for the first time, then it is curiosity. If it is for the second time, then it is knowledge. Filling the pail for the first time is also curiosity and is knowledge the next time.
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Filling a pail implies to me that someone is constantly pouring in knowledge, lighting a fire suggests they are igniting a passion for someone to seek out knowledge. The first suggests they will take whats poured into them but go no further and not necessarily understand it, the second suggests they will not only take in what is given but seek out and discover things for themselves leading to better understanding. Sometimes I feel schools are all to full of pail fillers.
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