Word: pedagoguese
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The body of literature about the Harvard Summer School is small and, alas, not particularly distinguished. It consists, in fact, of one book--a light romantic novel, written in 1899 by one Arthur Stanwood Pier and called The Pedagogues: A Story of the Harvard Summer School. The Pedagogues has understandably...
Perhaps all this should greatly concern Summer School administrators; perhaps their institution lacks whatever it is that inspires novelists, and that may be something to worry about. At any rate, judging from The Pedagogues, the place hasn't become much more or less inspirational in the last 75 years. People...
None of this is to say that The Pedagogues is a compelling character study, because it isn't. The dialogue is wooden and the action, after a while, predictable--everyone falls in love with the person they should rightfully fall in love with in the end. What touches of sophistication...
The message of it all is what you would expect from a middle-class comedy of manners: people who put on airs run into trouble. People in The Pedagogues are forever getting carried away with their own pretensions. Groch decides he is a genius because he writes lines like
Stegner believes that the quintessential DeVoto was DeVoto the polemicist. He railed against censors, education-school pedagogues, the Old Left and the New Critics (whom he called simply "the boys"). He was a growling consumer advocate who made long lists of things that didn't work, including kitchen knives...