"The burden of our children's glory should be laid daily on our backs, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it...It is a serious thing to live in a household of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting child...may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping the child to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with our children...there are no ordinary people."
-C.S. Lewis, as quoted in Children Who Do Too Little
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