C. S. Lewis Quote

For everyone pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumbers of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down the jungles but to irrigate forests.


The Abolition of Man, Chapter 1 (p. 9), The Macmillan Co. 1947


For everyone pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumbers of cold...

For everyone pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumbers of cold...

For everyone pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumbers of cold...

For everyone pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumbers of cold...