C.S. Lewis and the Long-Forgotten Secret of the Shadowlands

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!

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I knew that C.S. Lewis had a very low opinion of modern education in general, and yet, Professor Digory’s words about schools at the beginning and end of Narnia intrigued me greatly.

At the beginning of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he says to Peter and Susan who don’t yet believe in the existence of Narnia,

“Logic!” said the Profes…