A Quote by Muriel Spark

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

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Education Call Intrusion Leading Me Miss Out Pupil Putting Something Soul

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Muriel Spark
Scottish - Novelist
February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006

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.

Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

Muriel Spark

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

Dalai Lama

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Rick Warren

I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.

Greg Lake

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Alfred North Whitehead

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Princess Nokia

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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India Arie

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.