TY - BOOK AU - Pike,Mark A. TI - Mere education: C.S. Lewis as teacher for our time SN - 9780718841867 AV - PN45 .P55 2013eb U1 - 370.115 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Lutterworth Press KW - Lewis, C. S. KW - Literature KW - Study and teaching KW - EDUCATION KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - Organizations & Institutions KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Lewis, C. S. -- (Clive Staples), -- 1898-1963 KW - Literature -- Study and teaching KW - RELIGION / Christian Education / Children & Youth KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part 1. The hinge of the wardrobe door : core values, character and Christianity -- part 2. The furniture of the house : schooling children -- part 3. Professor Lewis : cultural interpreter for educators -- part 4. The professor's house : leading on school ethos and excellence in teaching N2 - The word 'mere' is used in the title of this book in its Middle English sense as an adjective 'nothing less than, complete'. This book is about schooling for a fair and vibrant society; it is about an education of hope, education that completes a person. In 'The Magician's Nephew' (1955), the first in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series, Digory and Polly are dragged back through time into a world that is ""devoid of life and barren of vegetation"". Such a world is not a safe place for children and young people. When C.S. Lewis wrote that the task of the modern educator is 'to irrigate dese UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813524 ER -