The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.