Which C.S. Lewis work was published in 1943 as a critique of modern education?

The Abolition of Man was published in 1943 as C.S. Lewis’s critique of modern education and moral relativism.

The book grew from three lectures Lewis delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. He argued that education should not treat moral judgments as merely subjective emotional responses. Instead, he defended what he called the Tao, a phrase he used for a cross-cultural tradition of objective moral principles.

Lewis’s argument develops through three chapters: “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.” He warned that attempts to control nature through technological power could ultimately become attempts by some humans to control other humans.

The title is sometimes misunderstood as a call to eliminate humanity. Lewis meant the abolition of humanity’s moral and rational nature: a future in which people become products of manipulation rather than agents capable of judgment.