:39:00
Perhaps you're right, though I wonder
if the spirits of the girls need enlivening.
:39:04
Oh, indeed they do!
:39:06
My credo is,
"Lift, enliven, stimulate!"
:39:09
No doubt.
But the Marcia Blaine School...
:39:12
is essentially
a conservative school.
:39:14
We do not encourage
the, uh, progressive attitudes.
:39:18
Now, Miss Brodie,
I have noticed...
:39:20
a spirit of precocity among your girls...
your special girls.
:39:24
- Why, thank you.
- Oh.
:39:26
I am in my prime...
:39:28
and my girls are
benefiting from it.
:39:31
I'm proud to think that perhaps
my girls are more aware.
:39:35
- Precisely. Now...
- To me, education is a leading out.
:39:40
The word education comes
from the root "ex," meaning "out,"
:39:43
and "duco..."
"I lead."
:39:45
To me, education is simply a...
a leading out...
:39:49
of what is
already there.
:39:52
I had hoped there might also be
a certain amount of putting in.
:39:56
That would not be education, but intrusion...
:40:01
from the root prefix "in,"
meaning "in,"
:40:03
and the stem "trudo..."
"I thrust."
:40:05
Ergo, to thrust a lot
of information into a pupil's head.
:40:09
To discuss education with such
a dedicated teacher...
:40:12
is always instructive.
:40:14
However, it was not for that reason
I asked you to come here.
:40:18
Miss Brodie...
:40:20
I am told that you make
weekly expeditions to Cramond.
:40:25
Yes. Isn't it
a lovely spot?
:40:30
It is, indeed.
:40:32
I believe Mr. Lowther inherited
the estate from his mother.
:40:34
He's lived there
all his life.
:40:36
Mr. Lowther is not
a worldly man...
:40:40
not a reckless man.
:40:42
It is doubtful whether he would
recognize recklessness in others.
:40:46
And recklessness
is an indulgence...
:40:49
that we at Marcia Blaine
must eschew...
:40:52
not only within our walls,
but in the personal life...
:40:55
the conduct, as it were,
of the teaching staff.
:40:59
Oh, Miss Mackay...