Experimental House

[Lady_of_the_Green_Kirtle]

I was just wondering - does anyone know what exactly this was meant to be -Experimental House? I just don't get what its supposed to be - its some kind of school obviously but what else? I fear I'm not explaining this very well but any answers are appreciated :)

[PrinceOfTheWest]

Experiment House, which shows up at the start and end of Silver Chair, seems to represent all that Lewis thinks worst about "progressive" education at the time: secular, modern, amoral, and ruled by the ideas of Man rather than the laws of God. I'm sure it was not representative of any particular school (though I could be wrong), but rather of a type of school that was coming into vogue at the time. It was, of course, a boarding school, but I don't think it was anything more than that.

[WolfsBane]

He makes some cutting remarks in the book about how it's a school where the bullies don't get punished, they get talked too by the counselors and pretty much mollycoddled (not unlike my school now I come to think on it) and how they call themselves by their last names, and they're not taught about religion...

Sounds rather like a very depressing school :eek: OMG! He just described public education...LOL or maybe not...but there's a lot of similarities there. I remember reading somewhere he had a hard time of school not being a very athletic person, so he never had much love of school...

Can't blame him either...I've hated schools since kinder... :o

But yes, I think, back then Experiment House, was just that, a new experimental kind of education system...I don't know about them being amoral but definately not bastions of moral teaching.