“The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. 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, from the Latin root prefix in meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.”
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
― The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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