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- Another Voice: Instill lifelong learning, not test-taking, in students
Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner William Butler Yeats once said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” Learning is not a destination, but a journey.
June 22, 2013 - The Buffalo News - Cat and owner swim for their lives in Canada flood
Photographer Jordan Verlage captured a dramatic sequence of photos Thursday as a river in Alberta overflowed its banks, submerging a truck as its driver — and his cat — swam for their lives.Don Patterson of the Okotoks Western Wheel reports:High River resident Kevan Yeats was driving his truck through water on Fifth Avenue. He misjudged how much water was on the road."The truck started to float ...
June 22, 2013 - NBC NEWS
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- Johnny Murtagh in Sydney Morning Herald
Yeats needs to cruise at a high tempo and he was able to today, plus the ground was better for him,Murtagh told The Racing Post. "Today we had a good pacemaker who gave me a lead until the straight." - John Magnier in Sydney Morning Herald
It's unbelievable to win at the third attempt [with Yeats], and the perfect result,Coolmore's John Magnier said. "Aidan has been training them differently this year, and this race has always been in mind for Yeats. He was probably a better... - Robert Christgau in PR Newswire (press release)
Robert Christgau writes in Blender that Modern Times is "Startling. Radiates the observant calm of old masters who have seen enough life to be ready for anything -- Yeats, Matisse, Sonny Rollins."