Why are standards of thinking most everywhere low? Look to the mile-wide-inch-deep K-16 curricula. C. S. Lewis drew the following wisdom from his early school life:
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but the classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
(Quoted from page 113 of Surprised by Joy, by C. S. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955.)
For a brief biography of C. S. Lewis, click here. For images of or relating to C. S. Lewis, click here.
In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but the classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
(Quoted from page 113 of Surprised by Joy, by C. S. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955.)
For a brief biography of C. S. Lewis, click here. For images of or relating to C. S. Lewis, click here.
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