"Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.
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“We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.”
“Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.”
“I once did hold it, as our statists do,A baseness to write fair, and labour'd muchHow to forget that learning; but, sir, nowIt did me yeoman's service.”
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“We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.”
“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.”
“If you want real peace in the world, start with children.”