"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth."

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Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and philosopher best known for Parallel Lives. His writings strongly influenced later European biography, moral philosophy, and political thought.

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