The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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:06:02
Will the two new girls
please stand up?

:06:07
- You are?
- Emily Carstairs, Miss Brodie.

:06:10
Emily Carstairs.
:06:14
There.
You are inscribed.

:06:17
Would you like to tell us
something about yourself, Emily?

:06:20
I'm a Girl Guide, Miss Brodie.
I have six merit badges.

:06:24
One for knot tying.
One for flag folding.

:06:27
- Indeed.
- One...

:06:29
For those who like that sort of thing,
that is the sort of thing they like.

:06:32
You may sit down, Emily.
:06:34
And this is Mary McGregor.
:06:38
Well, what about you, Mary?
You don't look to me like a girl who ties knots.

:06:41
N-N-No, Miss Brodie, but my b-b-brother does.
:06:47
That is as it should be.
:06:50
But what about you?
What are your interests?

:06:54
I haven't g-got any.
:06:57
I d-d-don't think.
:07:00
That is what I am for,
Mary McGregor...

:07:03
to provide you
with interests.

:07:08
You may sit down now, Mary.
:07:16
Little girls, I am in the business
of putting old heads on young shoulders.

:07:21
All my pupils are
the creme de la creme.

:07:25
Give me a girl
at an impressionable age...

:07:27
and she is mine for life.
:07:30
You girls are my vocation.
:07:32
If I were to receive
a proposal of marriage tomorrow...

:07:35
from the Lord Lyon, king of arms,
I would decline it.

:07:39
I am dedicated
to you in my prime.

:07:43
And my summer in Italy
has convinced me...

:07:45
that I am truly
in my prime.

:07:48
Emily, Mary McGregor,
you are new to this institution.

:07:51
It is possible you will hear my teaching
methods decried in certain quarters...

:07:55
as being unsuitable for a conservative school
like Marcia Blaine.

:07:59
That is to say, a school dedicated
to the status quo.


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