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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

irrigating deserts, C. S. Lewis, education, The Abolition of Man

College

Humanities

Department

English

Abstract

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst” (C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, p. 37).

In his The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis lays out the foundations of his philosophy on education. While many of Lewis’s writings on Christianity are well read and accepted by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his writings on education are not as often explored both in and out of the Church, probably because they are generally less accessible to the casual reader. Lewis’s ideas on education, like his ideas on Christianity, resonate well with the doctrine and teachings of the Church. Because Lewis explores true principles in his writings on education, the ideas he teaches are not only crucial for people involved in the field of education, but are important for every person to understand. In this report, I will summarize some of the central ideas of Lewis’s educational philosophy. I will also give a brief accounting of the course of this study in the last year and a projection of my plans with it.

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