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Thank you. resources. Subscribe today at gospel and life.com. I was, oh, I was actually a real live formal teacher for five years at graduate school seminary. I actually lectured and I created tests and I graded tests in papers for five years. I said, get me back

in the ministry where you can teach and teach you, nobody knows whether the people are learning

or not. That's wonderful and there's no way to find out. It seems like, so took all the pressure

off. Let me, uh, let me, uh, let, yes, okay, let me suggest,

the only book that C.S. Lewis ever wrote on public education,

that's what this book supposedly about, the abolition of man.

Little books, see?

Short books, the sort of thing that everybody wants.

And let me, let me share two thoughts from the book.

If you are a teacher and haven't ever read it, or if you haven't read it in a long time,

I suggest you read it because it is about education.

The first essay is called Men Without Chess, very famous.

And in it, he takes a book that was written at the time it gets in the

1940s a book that was supposedly a textbook for English literature for high school

students what we call high school and in the book this is great quote here that Lewis

quotes he says the textbook says when people say a waterfall is sublime,

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