Which C.S. Lewis book argues that modern education can weaken independent judgment?

The Abolition of Man argues that certain forms of modern education can weaken independent judgment.

C.S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in 1943 after delivering the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham. The short work consists of three chapters and examines education, moral values and the danger of treating judgments about value as nothing more than subjective feelings.

Lewis begins by criticizing a schoolbook that, in his view, reduces emotional responses to statements of fact. He argues that this approach can produce “men without chests”: people whose appetites and intellects are not properly ordered by trained moral sentiment. He then defends an objective moral order that he calls the Tao.

The book is sometimes mistaken for The Problem of Pain because both are philosophical works about Christianity. The Abolition of Man is more directly concerned with education, moral realism and the consequences of trying to control nature through technological power.