Some of this material winds up being reiterated (with a less diabolical but equally angry and monitory spin on it) in a collection of Lewis's essays on education called The Abolition of Man. (The subtitle of the collection is "Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools", but there's a whole lot more going on in there: specifically an argument that the moral education of the next generation (he was writing in 1947) is being fatally compromised by rotten textbooks, muddy thinking among both teachers and textbook writers, and a tendency to try to either etiolate or completely sever any contact between the life of the mind and the greater pattern of the Tao. (Lewis's take on the Tao is fascinating to read -- surprisingly inclusive -- and would probably cause the brains of people who consider him exclusively a hard-line Christian writer to spin around inside their heads.)
The paperback is out there used (my copy is from the 1978 unified Macmillan reprint of Lewis's work -- OMG when did I last pay $1.95 for a new paperback??!! -- though probably still in print. You might want to check the local library. It's a surprising and somewhat scary read.
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Some of this material winds up being reiterated (with a less diabolical but equally angry and monitory spin on it) in a collection of Lewis's essays on education called The Abolition of Man. (The subtitle of the collection is "Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools", but there's a whole lot more going on in there: specifically an argument that the moral education of the next generation (he was writing in 1947) is being fatally compromised by rotten textbooks, muddy thinking among both teachers and textbook writers, and a tendency to try to either etiolate or completely sever any contact between the life of the mind and the greater pattern of the Tao. (Lewis's take on the Tao is fascinating to read -- surprisingly inclusive -- and would probably cause the brains of people who consider him exclusively a hard-line Christian writer to spin around inside their heads.)
The paperback is out there used (my copy is from the 1978 unified Macmillan reprint of Lewis's work -- OMG when did I last pay $1.95 for a new paperback??!! -- though probably still in print. You might want to check the local library. It's a surprising and somewhat scary read.
ETA: Hey, it's online here. (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition1.htm)