Word: targets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...THAT target for the arrows of the aggrieved student, the marking system, (pardon me for mentioning it!) that contradictory, illogical, unjust method of classifying men, seems likely to assume an importance more than local; for it is in full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People...