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Quote by Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the p

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupils 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. – Muriel Spark

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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark

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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. – Muriel Spark

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. – Charlotte Bronte

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