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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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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to mans estate, is the gift of education. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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