...390 EDUCATION, FUNCTION OF 391 Education, Function of The Abolition of Man, chap. 1, para. 8, p. 24. 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...

...good teacher is one much to be desired and one calling for special skills. CS Lewis (24) commented: "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts." More properly, the instructor's task encompasses both of these. Undoubtedly, the leading of students...

...University (New York, NY: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907) pp. 35-36. The emphases here are mine. 10. "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence [sic] against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility...

...experience as a teacher tells an opposite tale. For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need...cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our...

...workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. — 2 Timothy 2:15 The task of the modern educator is not to cut down...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....

...who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened for the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern...not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts." — C. S. Lewis "On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much an educated man was superior to one who...

...teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron." —Hoeace Mann "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate ditches." — C. 5. Lewis "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."...

...was urged to actual performance." — Einstein "For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened for the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to...

...contradiction. 18 CS Lewis was surely right when he claimed that "for every pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need...to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity." See The Abolition of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1955), 24. 19 At least in their abstract formulation....

...memorized. He who has imagination but no education has wings but no feet. 111 — French proverb ii The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate ditches. —CS le\f\s I never used to like school, because I could never learn. But a couple of years...