Light my fire

September 10, 1999

About 2,000 years ago Plutarch observed that the student's mind was a fire to be lit, not a vessel to be filled (Teaching, "The fallacy of facts", THES, September 3).

Dave Radlett

Firelighter in law, Mid Kent College

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