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Q: Find a quote from a book. ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Find a quote from a book.
Category: Reference, Education and News > Education
Asked by: gale3231-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 13 Sep 2003 19:07 PDT
Expires: 13 Oct 2003 19:07 PDT
Question ID: 255581
I'm trying to find the following quote:  "Our schools should be a
place where children have been made to work up to their individual
potential, where talent is placed in high posts, and where the worth
of the individual is stressed.  In this sense the individual qualities
of humility, charity, contentment, and all the pleasures of gratitude
or admiration are to be included in their education."
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Subject: Re: Find a quote from a book.
Answered By: juggler-ga on 13 Sep 2003 20:13 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello.

First of all, it's not an exact quote.  It's a partial quote from C.S.
Lewis' "Screwtape Proposes a Toast."

You wrote:

"Our schools should be a place where children have been made to work
up to their individual potential, where talent is placed in high
posts,

C.S. Lewis wrote:

"... children have been made to work at school, where talent is placed
in high posts.."
http://www.modern-mystic.net/doc/screwtape.htm


You wrote:

"In this sense the individual qualities of humility, charity,
contentment, and all the pleasures of gratitude or admiration are to
be included in their education."

C.S. Lewis wrote:

"...as a state of mind which, necessarily excluding humility, charity,
contentment, and all the pleasures of gratitude or admiration..."
http://www.modern-mystic.net/doc/screwtape.htm

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The phrases "humility, charity, contentment, and all the pleasures of
gratitude or admiration," "children have been made to work, and 
"where talent is placed in high posts" are so unique that it's highly
unlikely that there is any source for the quotation other than C.S.
Lewis.

search strategy:
"pleasures of gratitude"

I hope this helps.
gale3231-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $5.00
Thanks so much - I was sure it was C.S.Lewis but I had gone over and
over my books and couldn't find it.  I forgot Screwtape!  The "quote"
was the reversed Screwtape version - thus my inaccuracy.

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Subject: Re: Find a quote from a book.
From: juggler-ga on 14 Sep 2003 10:50 PDT
 
Thank you for the tip.
-juggler

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