: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.
:08:03
Can anyone define
"status quo"?
:08:07
Sandy?
:08:09
Does it mean staying the same,
Miss Brodie?
:08:12
Precisely.
:08:14
Staying the same to the point
of petrification.
:08:18
P-E-T-R-l-F...
:08:21
l-C-A-T-l-O-N.
:08:26
Petrification.
:08:28
I do not intend to devote
my prime to petrification.
:08:31
Prop up your books
in case of intruders.
:08:34
If there are intruders,
we are doing our history.
:08:37
But we will not
do our history.
:08:39
Can anyone tell me who is
the greatest Italian painter?
:08:43
Leonardo da Vinci,
Miss Brodie.
:08:45
That is incorrect, Jenny.
:08:48
The answer is Giotto.
He is my favorite.
:08:55
Observe,
little girls, Stanley Baldwin...
:08:58
who got in as prime minister
and got out again ere long.