Which 1943 book by C.S. Lewis argues that education should cultivate judgment and moral formation?

The Abolition of Man is C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that education should cultivate judgment and moral formation rather than merely produce useful reactions. It began as a series of lectures delivered at the University of Durham.

Lewis criticized approaches to education that treated value judgments as nothing more than subjective feelings. He argued that human cultures share broad principles of objective value, which he called the Tao in the book’s concluding discussion.

The work is divided into three chapters: “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.” Its argument moves from classroom instruction to the wider consequences of trying to control nature through technology while rejecting objective moral standards.

The book is sometimes confused with Lewis’s later Christian apologetic works. It is a compact philosophical and educational critique, not a novel, autobiography, or collection of sermons.