Teaching is really a three-sided relationship; for the teacher has to select his material with an equal regard for its integrity and the nature of the child’s interest.

(Marjorie Hourd, The Education of the Poetic Spirit, 1949)

At that time they had been immediately recognizable as Miss Brodie’s pupils, being vastly informed on a lot of topics irrelevant to the authorized curriculum…and useless to the school as a school.