Mere Education

C.S. Lewis as Teacher for our Time

by Mark A. Pike

Book cover: Mere Education

Extent: 194 pages

Publisher: The Lutterworth Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: English

Paperback (No longer our product)

(September 2013)

ISBN: 9780718893255

6.1 x 9.17 inches

Price: $33.00

In stock

PDF (No longer our product)

(September 2013)

ISBN: 9780718841867

Price: $24.00

An exploration of C.S. Lewis’s thinking and writing on education, and how Lewis’s insights offer a challenge to modern educational theory and practice.


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

  • By (author) Mark A Pike