C.S. Lewis, How have schools sabotaged education?

This is a look at the first chapter of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, entitled 'Men without Chests'. It discusses the way in which modern public education has eradicated moral education from its whole worldview, weakening its students to a propaganda assault and making them “men without chests.”
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[@luiscrespo9902]

Love your teaching style. Thanks for recording your classes. I've learned much from you.

[@TheLookingGlassAU]

I've read the Abolition of Man a few times, I've listened to multiple lectures of years that you have given on it, and still listening now new things and old forgotten things come up. Specifically I'm thinking about Queer Theory and it's inversion on beauty, truth and the good.

[@Totallyfine29_]

yay now I have something interesting to binge watch while drawing

[@konbouzikos]

An excellent talk that supports the importance of a Classical Christian Education!! Thank you Scott

[@Totallyfine29_]

rewatching because I had a conversation with my Harvard educated professor today , who I look up ⬆️ to, about actually unlearning stuff in class as a process of education and how I felt frustrated by other misleading tutors and the propaganda they spoon feed us with , I feel frustrated seeing other students swallowing it

[@LitProf]

Yes, it’s very frustrating how few of the Professoriate have actually questioned the logic of what they assert or investigated the basis for ‘established truths’.

[@ampatriot7092]

Watching for the 2nd time - at about the 25:36 mark - there was suggested that one should have the "freedom to do with your body what you want to do". Please comment more and with respect to the Imago Dei.

[@LitProf]

I am defending the Nuremberg Code and its definition of medical malpractice with this comment.

[@NNHC2019]

Please explain more professor about why you don’t like Game of Thrones. Obviously it has gratuitous nudity and profanity, but I feel that it makes clear the difference between good and evil like good literature. All of the bad people suffer horrible deaths in the end, and though many good people also die, in the end the good people (the Starks especially) rule the 7 kingdoms. Nobody thinks that the incestuous, plotting Lannisters are the good guys. It’s very clear from early on that the honorable Starks are the good guys. Unfortunately they make mistakes, just like good people in any story. I feel like Shakespeare uses many such characters, evil characters like Iago, the Macbeths, Hamlet’s uncle, etc. Often times good people fall into the traps of these evil characters. If the good prevails or fails is the difference largely between comedy and tragedy. Thanks for your attention, best wishes

[@LitProf]

The degree of depravity and pornography was so extreme, I had to stop watching. No viewer is edified by the gratuitous displays in that disgusting series.

[@MatthewPedersonArtist]

@@LitProf When I first saw Game of Thrones, I thought nothing of all the vulgarity and profanity in it because so much or our entertainment is full of it, I didn't really notice it. However, I've read nothing but classical literature for the past couple years and it was like a detox of modern depravity. Doing that made me really see how vulgar this show really is.

[@LitProf]

@MatthewPedersonArtist exactly

[@NNHC2019]

@@MatthewPedersonArtist are not The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aneid, and others basically similar stories of bloodshed, violence, betrayal, rape, adultery, and more? I was actually noticing similar themes between GOT and greek mythology. For example, Stanis Baratheon sacrifices his daughter as a last ditch effort to gain favor with the Gods before the battle at Winterfell. This reminds me of Agammemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds to carry his fleet to Troy. There's a fair amount of this stuff Shakespeare too and even in the Bible. I guess the main difference could be that with GOT it is carried out on screen in vivid detail vs somewhat vaguely in writing. The main issue as I see it is that GOT has gratuitous violence and eroticism which is probably done for shock factor and arousing emotions. But I'm open to your thoughts, please help me garnish my thoughts with virtue :)

[@LitProf]

@NNHC2019 The difference besides the gratuitous sex, violence, and incest (universally deplored across cultures) is threefold: 1) there are gods in every epic, vital to the plot development; 2) the gods are clearly outraged at the suitors actions; 3) the suitors are harshly punished for their actions. And so cosmic justice is restored.