Exordium
C.S. Lewis on Three Kinds of Education: Propagandizing, Debunking, and Initiating
by Brett Vaden
What are we doing when we educate children? There are three possibilities. (more…)
by Brett Vaden
What are we doing when we educate children? There are three possibilities. (more…)
In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis introduces his subject by discussing the contents of a textbook on his shelf, which he calls “The Green Book.” To protect the authors’ real names, he refers to them as Gaius and Titius. Rather than accomplish their stated purpose, to teach upper school boys and girls the art of English composition, Gaius and Titius’s efforts mainly serve to implant a dangerous idea into their young readers’ minds.