Filling Buckets or Lighting Fires?

I recently came across a very interesting and, I believe, powerful quote by WB Yeats who was an Irish poet.  He stated, "education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire."  This quote provides an interesting approach to and perspective on education.  To me, "filling a bucket" sounds mundane and not fulfilling or enriching but "lighting a fire" seems more vivid and inspirational.  This quote seems to be saying that as an educator, your job is not to just simply fill your students brains ("buckets") with knowledge and facts but to inspire ("light a fire") your students to have a hunger for learning and a natural curiosity about life.  On top of this, it is vital as a teacher that you encourage students, applaud their strengths, and motivate them to improve their weakness.  A dream for me as a teacher is to inspire my students by "lighting a fire" in them to be true world citizens that want to bring about positive change to the world and approach life with a sympathetic, thoughtful, logical, helpful, caring, happy, and educated view of the natural and social world.  Lighting fires also just sounds more fun than filling buckets.