Cs Lewis Biography
C.S. Lewis According to author, scholar, and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts” (this is what Lewis said when he wrote The Abolition of a Man). By this, he says a teacher should not change what his students know, but guide them in areas of weakness. He learned this technique throughout his life. **SEGWAY** As a child, Lewis was a Christian. Then he became an atheist at the age of 15 because he lost his way and was mad at God for “not being real”. He converted back to Christianity because of his friend J. R. R. Tolkien. Clive Staples Lewis, the influential author, became a well known evangelist because of his childhood, his conversion to Christianity, and life
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His parents were Flora Hamilton Lewis and Albert James Lewis (1). C.S. Lewis’s older brother Warren, nicknamed Warnie was his close friend and his friend for life (Kennedy 2). Clive was looked over by servants when he was younger and mostly played indoors because of dangerous diseases that many parents were worried about at the time (Kennedy 1). As a child, his family went to Saint Mark’s Church in Dunellen (2). Clive’s parents first met at that church. C.S. Lewis wanted to be called “Jacksie” when he was four (Kennedy 8). He would refuse to answer if people called him by anything else. Eventually, he grew out of it and simply preferred Jack (8). Jack and Warnie’s fantasy grew when they moved to a house named, Little Lea (Kennedy 9). It was huge, with many rooms and it was far out in the countryside. In the book, Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis writes, “To me, the important thing about the move(Little Lea) was the background of my life became larger. The New House is almost a major character in my story. I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silence, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns, and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles.” In this he writes that he loves exploring new places, and that you're never sure what you’ll find. C.S. Lewis’s mother died August 21, 1908 on her husband's birthday. For a few years Flora, was homeschooling Jack but after that he was sent toWynyard School (Kennedy
His parents were Flora Hamilton Lewis and Albert James Lewis (1). C.S. Lewis’s older brother Warren, nicknamed Warnie was his close friend and his friend for life (Kennedy 2). Clive was looked over by servants when he was younger and mostly played indoors because of dangerous diseases that many parents were worried about at the time (Kennedy 1). As a child, his family went to Saint Mark’s Church in Dunellen (2). Clive’s parents first met at that church. C.S. Lewis wanted to be called “Jacksie” when he was four (Kennedy 8). He would refuse to answer if people called him by anything else. Eventually, he grew out of it and simply preferred Jack (8). Jack and Warnie’s fantasy grew when they moved to a house named, Little Lea (Kennedy 9). It was huge, with many rooms and it was far out in the countryside. In the book, Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis writes, “To me, the important thing about the move(Little Lea) was the background of my life became larger. The New House is almost a major character in my story. I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silence, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns, and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles.” In this he writes that he loves exploring new places, and that you're never sure what you’ll find. C.S. Lewis’s mother died August 21, 1908 on her husband's birthday. For a few years Flora, was homeschooling Jack but after that he was sent toWynyard School (Kennedy