C.s. LewisThe difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
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The difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. The old sort of education was an organic growth, which transmitted to other generations its own nature. It was not created by human will for any particular purpose or for any definite end. It just grew up, as it were, naturally.
Now, the new sort of education is conceived, not as a product of nature but as something that is propagated by human will. Education is to be regarded as a kind of manufacture which is under the control of human will.
Source: The Abolition Of Man
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