{"id":1113,"date":"2015-06-29T22:13:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T03:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2015-06-29T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T03:28:08","slug":"c-s-lewis-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2015\/06\/29\/c-s-lewis-on-education\/","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For every pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. \u00a0The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. \u00a0The right defence [sic] against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. \u00a0By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. \u00a0For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.&#8221; C.S. Lewis, <em>Abolition of Man<\/em> in <em>The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics<\/em> (New York, 2007), p. 699.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For every pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. \u00a0The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2015\/06\/29\/c-s-lewis-on-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-s-lewis","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}