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Issues in Global Politics : 
an introduction to International Relations

Issues in Global Politics : an introduction to International Relations

Issues in Global Politics : an introduction to International Relations

An Introduction to Philosophy

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’

Something can be both true and mistaken at the same time.

For example, this quotation is almost always attributed to the poet WB Yeats. Yet there is no record of him ever writing or saying this.
Does the mistaken attribution of authorship diminish the truth of the claim ?.

W B Yeats

Education for love, not money