C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

"…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."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."