To me education is a leading out of what is alread — Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
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One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ch. 1
Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) ch. 1
Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.
Be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
He who controls the past controls the future. "Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
He who controls the past controls the future. "Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Groucho Marx