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Iris Murdoch:
Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears. Tells use where delights are lurking. Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers
Education doesn't make you happy. And what is freedom? We don't become happy just because we are free, if we are. Or because we have been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears. Tells use where delights are lurking. Convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever: that of the mind. And give us the assurance, the confidence, to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers
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Education doesn't make you happy
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and nor does freedom
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We don't become happy just because we're free if we are
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or because we've been educated if we have
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but because education may be the means
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by which we realize we are happy
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It opens our eyes our ears
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tells us where delights are lurking
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convinces us that there is only one freedom
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of any importance whatsoever that of the mind
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and gives us the assurance
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the confidence to walk the path our mind
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our educated mind offers
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Movie Summary
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Actors
Iris Murdoch
John Bayley
