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C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (2nd Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

daughter, Jenny, was in fifth grade in a progressive public school in the town where we then lived—one of those bucolic New England college towns in which university students outnumber permanent residents—she was required to complete a work sheet on distinguishing fact from value. “Values” were of course defined as subjective opinions having no cognitive status, and hence no defensible truth warrants: pure positivism. She read aloud as she did this, and as she was trying to figure things out. Her
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