Reading Spark

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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)