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THIS book is, unfortunately, based upon two misconceptions, both of which are common amongst classicists. In the first place, it is assumed that an attempt is being made at the present time to abolish classics from general education and to replace them by scientific studies. This is far from the truth. Men of science claim no privileges fo their own subject which they are not prepared to grant equally to classics and to the other branches of learning. Narrow specialisation in any one department, whether classical or scientific, we hold to be thoroughly bad from an educational point of view.
A Defence of Classical Education.
By R. W. Livingstone. Pp. X + 278. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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A Defence of Classical Education . Nature 99, 1–2 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099001a0
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