Narnia in Narnia: Rediscovering the Hidden World Through Platonic Wisdom

The heart knows the secret of the shadowlands even though the mind consistently denies it.

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Even though I knew of C.S. Lewis’s low opinion of modern education in general, Professor Digory’s words about schools at the beginning and end of the Narnia Chronicles 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…