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C.S. Lewis

Best of Afterthoughts, Educational Philosophy, Home Education
My Child Doesn’t Like X: Homeschooling Meets Resistance

Aristotle says that the aim of educationis to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.–C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man I discussed this in my talk at our local conference this year: this implies that children do not always like what they ought to like. My concern is that I’ve come across a lot of mothers lately who are so concerned that their children enjoy school that they avoid things that their children don’t like. The curriculum is then designed Continue Reading…
August 29, 2013
Of Other Worlds by C.S. Lewis

Are we allowed to give books by C.S. Lewis less than five stars? I feel a little guilty saying that this one is worth three, maybe four, but to be honest I think most, if not all, of these were published posthumously, which means Lewis himself didn’t insist on their publication. Well, maybe it means that. Maybe he would agree with me! The book starts out strong, with a couple of his more famous essays on fiction and fantasy, On Continue Reading…
February 14, 2013
Educational Philosophy
Ideals: Loving Knowledge for its Own Sake

Socrates conceived that knowledge is for pleasure,in the sense, not that knowledge is one source,but is the source of pleasure. —Charlotte Mason I ‘m not going to pretend that we aren’t born sinners and that some little children (initially, at least) refuse to learn or to even entertain the idea of learning. Now, of course even these children do learn. The vast majority of them really do become adults that walk and talk — most of them even read, more or Continue Reading…
October 9, 2012
The Abolition of Man

Ah, the title essay. Finally, we meet you! Cindy’s post is up, and I’m hoping there are more participants in this final installment of The Abolition of Man book club. Reading this particular essay was a bit of an adventure. I had to sit at my computer and Google things in order to fully comprehend. So, for instance, Clotho is, according to Wikipedia, one of the three fates, the daughter of Zeus and Themis {“divine law”}, who spins the thread Continue Reading…
November 4, 2011