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School Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling…
- Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.…
- Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived…
- All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
- If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very…
- But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more…
- Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get…
- He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.
- What do they teach them at these schools?
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- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
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