If education is not to be a matter of merely filling buckets which happen to be empty, as the poet Yeats once put it, but of lighting fires that have gone out, how are we to set them blazing again? Where is the kindling wood? And who’s got the match with which to light the fire? Perhaps the wood is already within, just waiting to be ignited. Plato certainly thought so, having shown us in the Meno...
