About this episode

The episode discusses the shortcomings of modern education in fostering deep thinking and imagination, referencing C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Project.

Somewhere along the way, we started training young people to be merely operators. We teach them to manage the machine, to run the system, to handle the tool that does the real work—and we measure their learning by how well they can retrieve what they need at the moment they need it. It is an efficient arrangement. It is also a strange one, because the things we most admire in a person—the capacity to think clearly when the air turns thick, to imagine, to judge well, to hold fast to what is tr...

People in this episode

Guest: Shannon Valenzuela

Topics covered

• education
• C.S. Lewis
• Inklings
• youth training
• critical thinking

Keywords

• education
• C.S. Lewis
• Inklings
• youth
• critical thinking
• imagination
• learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Inklings Project

Books & works: C.S. Lewis

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