My name is Sam Bitzer and I am planning on studying Economics. I come from Pittsburgh and am the youngest of seven kids and spent most of my time outside of high school playing or teaching sports. In high school, I was the captain of both the golf and tennis team at my school, and over the summer I taught tennis to middle school and elementary school kids. 

In C.W Lewis’s Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that upper form schools have attempted to take away the emotional aspects of education and thought, and because of this have initiated a process which will lead to a reality with only objective truths. Lewis argues that when this process inevitably happens, the world will be governed by only those who decide what objective reality should be, creating a totalitarian state where only a small group will have absolute control. To prove his thesis, Lewis uses Aristotle’s definition of education, where the objective is to “make the pupil like and dislike what he ought”(16), rather than forcing opinions onto the students. Lewis argues that the modern textbook has abstained from this goal, as they persuade students to not “project into things [their] own emotions”(3), such as calling a waterfall sublime, which is an adjective that project one’s own feelings knot an item, but rather describe things that are objectively correct, as Lewis uses the example of calling a waterfall pretty. This story symbolizes the overwhelming shift in education which is taking away the ability of individuals to have opinions and free thoughts. Lewis argues that if this continues, it will lead to a slippery slope in which the “subjective products” of one’s mind have “disappeared”(75), leading to a “mere abstract universe”(75) where the Tao “will be a product, rather than a motive, of education(61). If the eradication of the Tao and opinionated thoughts occur, reality will be the same for everyone, and the motive to find one’s interests and likes will become obsolete, officially creating a world where true men no longer exist.