Why did CS Lewis disliked about modern education? why was the school 'Experiment House' such a bad place? what did it represent? and why was Lewis making fun of modern education of his day?
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Posted : March 14, 2011 4:54 pm
You will probably get some very good answers to this if you google each question separately. Eminent scholars have written about this, and I am sure some of their material is printed in full on the internet.
Before the forum on "Into The Wardobe" was archived, this sort of request usually received a reply of "please read the book" or "your teacher would prefer you to think about it yourself".
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
Posted : March 14, 2011 11:10 pm
But why did Lewis made his Progressive School sound so terrible? what did he have against modern education? did he prefer homeschooling over public schools?
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Posted : March 21, 2011 4:41 pm
But why did Lewis made his Progressive School sound so terrible? what did he have against modern education? did he prefer homeschooling over public schools?
No, but he was conservative in his outlook- he preferred the older system in England of private schools (confusingly called "public shools" because they were theoretically open to anybody) which were single-sex and taught a curriculum largely based on the classical writings of Greece and Rome, history, and math and natural sciences.
The difference is that people wanted to hear the stories, whereas I never met anyone who wanted to read the essays
Posted : March 21, 2011 5:21 pm