In C.S. Lewis' masterpiece The Screwtape Letters, he makes an unsettling prediction: public education will decline as the middle class is hollowed out. He blames the pursuit of perfect equality and unfettered democratic tendencies which suppress the desire for greatness.
ThinkingWest
How C.S. Lewis Predicted the Decline of Modern Education
How C.S. Lewis Predicted the Decline of Modern Education
ThinkingWest
We aim to renew confidence in Western civilization by making its core ideas applicable to modern life. Here’s our approach: 1) Recognize the foundations of Western thought, 2) Show how these ideas shaped real institutions and lives, 3) Apply this inherited wisdom to present crises. ThinkingWest is not about nostalgia or ideology. It is about inheritance. Join us in "thinking west" again.
We aim to renew confidence in Western civilization by making its core ideas applicable to modern life. Here’s our approach: 1) Recognize the foundations of Western thought, 2) Show how these ideas shaped real institutions and lives, 3) Apply this inherited wisdom to present crises. ThinkingWest is not about nostalgia or ideology. It is about inheritance. Join us in "thinking west" again.Listen on
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