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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.

— Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

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