Rediscovering the Pedagogical Power of Narnia

C. S. Lewis’s fiction can teach virtue, according to a new curriculum. But the true potential is so much more.
My mother read The Chronicles of Narnia to my brother and me at night, while the four of us—my father half-listening while reading a novel of his own—lay on my parent’s enormous bed. I remember such strong emotion. When we got to The Last Battle, the final installment, I felt warm affection for the foolish donkey Puzzle, grief at the fall of Narnia, sharp frustra