C. S. Lewis Quotes About Mediocrity

• Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Mediocrity, Break

• In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Boys, Thinking

• When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Mediocrity, Dozen

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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