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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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Irish - Author November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963 Read full biography

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis

Teacher, Down, Task

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. C. S. Lewis

Education, Man, Devil

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C. S. Lewis

Friendship, Art, Philosophy

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis

Life, Respect, Daily

History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis

History, Good, Good Things

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis

Sun, Believe, I Believe

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. Lewis

Courage, Testing, Virtue

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis

Experience, Myself, World

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis

Progress, Man, Walking

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis

Success, Failure, Road

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis

Loneliness, Yourself, Long

We are what we believe we are. - C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are. C. S. Lewis

Brainy, Believe

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. - C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis

Business, Joy, Heaven

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis

Education, Nature, God

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis

Religion, Earth, Heaven

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Book, Me

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis

Important, True, Infinite

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis

Truth, Imagination, Meaning

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Peace, God

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Responsible

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis

Regret, World, Better

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Good, Tyranny, May

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis

Life, Happiness, God

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. - C. S. Lewis

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis

Colors, Be True, Christian

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. - C. S. Lewis

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C. S. Lewis

Nature, Miracles, Fact

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis

Change, Bird, Fly

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