Word: epigrams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having considered them well; and I say it because that system has been 'weighed in the balance and found wanting.' It is no epigram, but a simple fact, to say that classical education neglects all the powers of some minds, and some of the powers of all minds. In the case of the few it has a balue which, being partial, is unsatisfactory; in the case of the vast multitude it ends in irremediable waste...