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C. S. Lewis Quotes about School

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Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C. S. Lewis
Children, School, Adults
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, School, People

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

C. S. Lewis
School, Men, Good Man

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

C. S. Lewis
Children, Book, School
C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.2, Harper Collins

What do they teach them at these schools?

C. S. Lewis
School, Narnia, Teach
C.S. Lewis (2012). “Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe”, p.155, Oberon Books

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

C. S. Lewis
School, America, Should

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

C. S. Lewis
School, Holiday, Term
'Suprised by Joy' (1955) ch. 4

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

C. S. Lewis
School, Son, Parent

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.

C. S. Lewis
School, Mean, Other Worlds

Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor

C. S. Lewis
Kings, School, Adventure

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