Word: averagemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is, for the "super-scholars," or to phrase it more modestly, for minds above the average. The whole ambition of the best educators of the past two decades has been to arrive at a compromise between the necessity for taking care of "averagemen," whose fees are a necessity and the "upper fourth," whose intellects are the valuable thing. Any attempt to devitalize the strong medicine of learning to fit the mind of the less-than-average or the average man should meet with stern opposition: it would be highly reactionary...
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