The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there? ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2010). A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflectio … ▶
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