# Filling The Pail "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – As W. B. Yeats never said Page: Feed: --- ## [Careers education](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/careers-education) _2026-08-18 · Greg Ashman_ Starting at the beginning ## [Curios of the week #180](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-180) _2026-08-14 · Greg Ashman_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Bureaucrat SLAMS the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/bureaucrat-slams-the-australian-education) _2026-08-11 · Greg Ashman_ But is the criticism fair? ## [researchED Melbourne returns](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/researched-melbourne-returns) _2026-08-09 · Greg Ashman_ Science of learning on the ninth floor ## [Curios of the week #179](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-179) _2026-08-07 · Greg Ashman_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Education’s dark matter](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/educations-dark-matter) _2026-08-01 · Greg Ashman_ There is no evidence to inform most of what we do ## [Curios of the week #178](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-178) _2026-07-31 · Greg Ashman_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Moral panic at the academy](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/moral-panic-at-the-academy) _2026-07-27 · Greg Ashman_ Teaching standards and a call to action ## [Curios of the week #177](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-177) _2026-07-24 · Greg Ashman_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Open this .onion address (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2Ppkxn2kWhr8) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Access 7btj5kisrpopxjkhmcugbiygfk2xd6op3ta7whfrmxxrldyrlh5b5zad.onion using a Tor browser. ## [Mathematical Association of Victoria promotes Building Thinking Classrooms](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/mathematical-association-of-victoria) _2026-07-21 · Greg Ashman_ The opposite of explicit teaching boosted against state government guidance