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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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. – 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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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. – Piers Anthony

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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. – Arthur Ashe

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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. – Henry David Thoreau

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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. – Mary Astell

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