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"to see me in my office
this afternoon at 4:15.
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Emmaline Mackay."
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4:15. Not 4:00.
Not 4:30, but 4:15.
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She thinks to intimidate me
by the use of quarter hours.
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Now, as I was
attempting to say...
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Benito Mussolini
is indeed a man of action.
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Come in.
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4:15. I was afraid
I might be late, or early.
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Not at all.
You are most punctilious.
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Thank you
for finding the time.
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I know how busy
your girls keep you.
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- Please, sit down.
- Oh. Thank you.
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What a colorful frock.
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Color enlivens the spirit,
does it not?
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Perhaps you're right, though I wonder
if the spirits of the girls need enlivening.
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Oh, indeed they do!
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My credo is,
"Lift, enliven, stimulate!"
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No doubt.
But the Marcia Blaine School...
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is essentially
a conservative school.
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We do not encourage
the, uh, progressive attitudes.
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Now, Miss Brodie,
I have noticed...
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a spirit of precocity among your girls...
your special girls.
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- Why, thank you.
- Oh.
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I am in my prime...
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and my girls are
benefiting from it.
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I'm proud to think that perhaps
my girls are more aware.
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- Precisely. Now...
- To me, education is a leading out.
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The word education comes
from the root "ex," meaning "out,"
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and "duco..."
"I lead."
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To me, education is simply a...
a leading out...
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of what is
already there.
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I had hoped there might also be
a certain amount of putting in.
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That would not be education, but intrusion...