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  • C.S. Lewis on “The Essential Evil” of Schools

    C.S. Lewis on “The Essential Evil” of Schools1

    Author C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) attended school in England between the ages of 9 and 15. During that time, Lewis was for the most part blessed with good teachers. Yet, in reflecting back on his experience, Lewis describes in his autobiography what he also came to see as “the essential evil of public-school life.” (“Public school”

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  • C.S. Lewis Explains What’s Wrong with Today’s High School English Courses

    C.S. Lewis Explains What’s Wrong with Today’s High School English Courses3

    My colleague Devin Foley recently had a high school literature assignment come across his desk. As he explains so aptly here, the assignment did not touch on any of the ideas contained in classic literary works; instead, it asks students to research modern, social-justice related issues, such as Black Lives Matter, Confederate statues, and gender

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  • C.S. Lewis Explains How Governments Create ‘Tame Human Animals’

    C.S. Lewis Explains How Governments Create ‘Tame Human Animals’0

    Have you ever considered what type of school you would send your child to if you didn’t have to worry about cost? That question is one which EdChoice annually asks the American public. This year, they found that 83 percent of parents have a child attending public schools, but only 28 percent would keep that

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  • C.S. Lewis and the NXIVM Cult

    C.S. Lewis and the NXIVM Cult0

    My wife and I recently watched The Vow on HBO Max. It’s a nine-part documentary about NXIVM (pronounced “NEX-ee-um”), an organization that claimed to provide personal and professional development training programs. Think Scientology in its early days, when it was an unorthodox therapy program without all the sci-fi religious mythology. Like Scientology, its true nature

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  • C.S. Lewis and the Lavender Inner Ring

    C.S. Lewis and the Lavender Inner Ring0

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  • C.S Lewis Explains the Best Way to Handle Change

    C.S Lewis Explains the Best Way to Handle Change0

    With college just a few months ahead of me, I can’t wait for the “best years of my life” that everyone talks about to finally begin.   Not to be dramatic, but if college doesn’t live up to the wild expectations that you, society, has ingrained in me, I’m ditching and holding you personally responsible

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