Author: Martyn Bedford

Cites

• Muriel Spark (1)
  • IN: Acts of Revision (1996) Fiction , British
    EPIGRAPH: 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 meaning in and the stem trudo, I thrust. Miss Mackay's method is to thrust a lot of information into the pupil's head; mine is a leading out of knowledge, and that is true education as proved by its root meaning.
    FROM: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, (1961), Novel, UK
• Toni Morrison (1)
  • IN: Acts of Revision (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belong to the definers -- not the defined.
    FROM: Beloved, (1987), Novel, US