Miss Brodie's failure illustrates the dangers of looking at teaching as self-expression, personal fulfillment etc., to the extent of forgetting what it actually is - the careful addressing of students' experience both as individuals and as learners. The interaction between the small staff, the personality of the headmistress, and the way teachers deal with students. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is so short that it was first published, in its entirety, in the New Yorker, and then reissued in volume form by Macmillan in the UK in 1961.

Her eventual ruin at the hands of her “best” student results from the amour-propre both share. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is set in a 1930s private school in Edinburgh. The protagonist, Jean Brodie, is shown to be not only an inadequate teacher but a morally destructive one as well because she violates the teacher-student relationship by both encouraging amourpropre among her students and using those same students primarily to satisfy her own need for power and self-aggrandizement. Her pupils were called the Brodie set and were vastly informed on a. I do indeed. Miss Brodie’s teaching methods were shown to strongly affect each of the girls in different ways. Maggie Smith THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE. In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark uses the story of Miss Brodie and her ‘Brodie set’ to demonstrate the effect of an influential teacher upon herpupils. Though some of Rousseau's pedagogical methods may appear impractical and problematic, his insights into the psychological distortions of amour-propre bear directly on teaching because it is such an important instance of the relationship between self and others. Miss Jean Brodie was an unusual teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for girls, in Edinburgh. For people who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.

This paper addresses Rousseau's contribution to educational practice by illustrating the ways in which his notion of amour-propre distorts the teacher-student relationship in Muriel Spark's novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

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