“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You musn’t experiment on children; but offer the dear little kiddies free education in an experimental school attached to the NICE and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Theology is practical: especially now. In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We expect a solution of the unemployment problem, the cancer problem, the housing problem, the problems of currency, of war, of education.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It may be indispensable that Our Lord's teaching, by that elusiveness (to our systematising intellect), should demand a response from the whole… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages, mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image