either countered or somehow mated with the usually deadly increase in pedagogy resulting in that rarest of chimera: a successful meme/imaginary that doubles as a useful heuristic:
Accompanied by this triple caption, the image has a stronge…In the fictional city of Lagado on the flying island of Laputa in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), the protagonist encounters a Professor, inventor of a device known as “the engine” for “improving speculative knowledge by practic…Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labor; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials to give…
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