…the greatest service we can do to education today is to tea... - 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."

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