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

I asked my learned brother for an inspirational quote to share with Jasper on his first day of grade six and got this ditty from W.B. Yeats.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W.B. Yeats

In talking with Jasper recently about the value of going to school, we have discussed that it is not about doing well on tests that matters the most, but rather exercising the muscle of learning. Exercising is not the right word, I think conditioning is better.

Setting your brain into a forward gear of ingesting, digesting – extracting the value from information and data. From experiences.

As Jasper starts his adventure down the path of 6th grade I would love for you to share what gets you excited about learning.

Thanks for the inspiration Uncle Chris!