Schools, especially at the elementary level, inculcate (or fail to) the love of learning that blossoms into scholarship. To imagine that those who can excel scholastically "either will or will not... based on their own internal drive" is worse than stupid. A thoroughbred loses his will to run after being beaten down every day of his youth. And that is Lewis' point - it is the very aim of the educrats to grind out the spark that may ignite the love of excellence, all in the name of the lowest common denominator of the aforementioned "inherent worth and value of every other living being". Why is it so important that our children reject the extraordinary in favor of the mundane?