Which C.S. Lewis work argues that education should cultivate objective moral values?

The Abolition of Man argues that education should cultivate objective moral values.

The Abolition of Man is a three-part work first delivered as the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham in 1943. Lewis examines the relationship between language, emotion, reason, education, and moral judgment. He criticizes approaches that treat value statements as nothing more than personal feelings.

Lewis uses the term “the Tao” for a cross-cultural body of basic moral principles. His examples draw on traditions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, ancient Greek philosophy, and Chinese thought. He argues that denying objective value can leave people unable to judge their own impulses and can ultimately place human nature under the control of technological power.

The book is often grouped with Lewis’s works of Christian apologetics, but it is also a critique of educational theory and modern assumptions about progress. It is not the same as Mere Christianity, which grew from radio talks, or The Four Loves, which focuses on forms of human affection.