"The task of the modern educator is..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Father! Can I box him? Please!”

“The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.”

“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”

“We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.”

“The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.”

“It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.”

“True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.”

“In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.”

“Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.”