Education Quotes by C.S. Lewis

23 Education quotes by C.S. Lewis

Lewis’s 23 thoughts on education weave imagination with moral reflection, inviting readers to consider how knowledge shapes character and purpose.

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“If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.”

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“Even to see her walk across the room is a liberal education.”

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“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.”

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“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.”

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“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he…

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“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get…

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“You musn’t experiment on children; but offer the dear little kiddies free education in an experimental school attached to the NICE and…

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“My dear young lady,' said the professor...'there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.'…

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“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to…

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“We expect a solution of the unemployment problem, the cancer problem, the housing problem, the problems of currency, of war, of education.…

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“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than…

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“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him…

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“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public…

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“The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect…

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“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which…

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“It may be indispensable that Our Lord's teaching, by that elusiveness (to our systematising intellect), should demand a response from the whole…

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“We want you to write it down--to camouflage it. Only for the present, of course. Once the thing gets going we shan't…

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“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be…

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“At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages, mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing…

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“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not…

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“The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to…

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“Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come…

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“We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that…

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