Learning in a Word Objectively

Lewis sees learning in a word objectively. If progress in learning can't be measured for purposes of schooling, we have no way of knowing if it's happening at all. Appreciation cannot; trying to test pleasure or approval may prove hazardous even to the soul itself. Tell the boy to mug up and then set questions to find out whether he has done so. It was the reading, not the being examined which was expected to do him good. And this, so far from being a defect in such examinations, is just what renders them useful or tolerable.