"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
Topic(s): God
More From Muriel Spark
- "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."
- "Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance."
- "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."
More In God
- "All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable."― Fran Lebowitz
- "I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either."― Harold Pinter
- "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."― Zooey Deschanel