Written by Dr. Everett Piper
In 1943, C.S. Lewis warned of a day when our country’s educated class would claim that it made sense to “geld the stallion and then bid him be fruitful.” In his seminal work, “The Abolition of Man,” he accused the ivory tower of creating “men without chests,” where instead of pursuing the truth, our schools would educate an entire generation of moral and intellectual amputees with no understanding of the good, the true and the beautiful.… Continue Reading
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Education | David E. Smith |
April 4, 2025 6:00 AM |
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Written by Trevor Grant Thomas
A quote that is sometimes mistakenly credited to C.S. Lewis declares, “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” A clue that this was not uttered by Lewis is that it doesn’t quite capture the truth. As Lewis would well know, an education without values would be quite unlikely to be “useful.” What’s more, virtually all education incorporates some sort of values.… Continue Reading
Tags: Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Christian schools, critical race theory, Darwinian Evolution, evolutionism, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Men with Chests, The Abolition of Man
Education | David E. Smith |
June 28, 2021 9:48 AM |
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