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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.

Source: Miss Brodie, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, ch. 2, 1961.
-- Muriel Spark, (Feb 1 1918-2006), Scottish novelist, satirist; Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961 was adapted to film and stage.

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