Education Is The Kindling Of A

This originates with Plutarch, not Socrates. In his essay "On Listening" from the Moralia (c. 100 AD), Plutarch wrote that "the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting." The misattribution to Socrates arose through a chain of scholarly paraphrases, beginning with Benjamin Jowett's 1892 introduction to Plato's Republic, where he described Platonic education as "not the filling of a vessel, but the turning of the eye of the soul towards the light."