For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of s…

C. S. Lewis
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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 awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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