Classical vs. Modern Education: A Vision from C.S. Lewis

By Dr. Steve Turley

Discover The BEST Education For Your Child Imaginable!!!

With all the education options available today, choosing the right school or curriculum for your child can be daunting. But what if you knew what the ideal education looked like? Now you will!!!

C.S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, guides us on a journey that contrasts classical and contemporary education approaches. Lewis explains that while the cultivation of virtue was central to classical education, modern education stifles such moral formation by teaching a scientifically-inspired mechanistic vision of the world. By rediscovering classical education, Lewis argues that the affections of our students can be trained to love what's truly lovely and thereby experience human flourishing.

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***How to assess different educational approaches

***What is meant by the classical emphasis on virtue formation

***How our notion of the educated person has changed over the centuries

***The consequences of modern education for what it means to be human

***How to get involved in classical education

***How to access available classical education resources

***And much, much more!

The BEST possible education is at your fingertips!!! Take action today and awaken your child to a world of educational flourishing!!!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Steve Turley
• Release date: Nov 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781978199194

Dr. Steve Turley

Steve Turley (PhD, Durham University) is an internationally recognized scholar, speaker, and classical guitarist. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Classical vs. Modern Education: A Vision from C.S. Lewis, Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, and The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians.  Steve's popular YouTube channel showcases weekly his expertise in the rise of nationalism, populism, and traditionalism throughout the world, and his podcasts and writings on civilization, society, culture, education, and the arts are widely accessed at TurleyTalks.com. He is a faculty member at Tall Oaks Classical School in Bear, DE, where he teaches Theology and Rhetoric, and was formerly Professor of Fine Arts at Eastern University. Steve lectures at universities, conferences, and churches throughout the U.S. and abroad. His research and writings have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Calvin Theological Journal, First Things, Touchstone, and The Chesterton Review. He and his wife, Akiko, have four children and live in Newark, DE, where they together enjoy fishing, gardening, and watching Duck Dynasty marathons.

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Table of Contents

I. Waterfalls and the World

II. Classical Education and Culture

III. The Modern Revolution

IV. The Abolition of Man

V. The Education Renaissance

Conclusion

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I. Waterfalls and the World

There is no doubt that the 1940s constituted a most historically formidable decade: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, WWII, the advent of the Atomic bomb, the transformation of the U.S. into a global super power, the establishment of NATO, the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Yet among these notable events one rarely if ever comes across the inclusion of a small book, published in 1944, critiquing the state of British education. The book was entitled The Abolition of Man , and its author was one of the great literary minds of the twentieth-century, the renowned Oxford and Cambridge scholar, C.S. Lewis. In what is perhaps the single most significant analysis of the modern age published in the twentieth-century, Lewis in less than 100 pages outlines what Prof. Peter Kreeft calls a terrifying prophecy of mortality, not just the mortality of modern western civilization, but the mortality of human nature itself.

Lewis’ critique was initiated by a textbook, which he leaves unnamed, calling it