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  • Seashore posted an update 4 years, 8 months ago

    “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.”

    – The Abolition of Man, CS Lewis

    • Interesting man. Important thinking and expression. Somewhere, decades ago, read that upon his demise, his brother burned much of the remaining personal papers, except what the gardener could salvage from the fire. Would like to learn more.