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The New English Weekly, 20 (11 Dec 1941) 72

Sir, – I agree with your contributor T.I. that the two books which he noticed, by Sir Richard Livingstone and Professor John Dewey, were both concerned with the subject of Education; I agree that “Dewey’s approach goes much further back than Dewey” (on the well-established principle of reculer pour mieux sauter); 1 and I agree about the possibility that “a society inspired by saner purposes would evolve a system of education which would be different altogether from the system which we know to-day.” 2 I hope that he agrees with me that such a society would attach importance to the study of Greek, not merely for the training of professional philologists, but for the education of men who might play some part in the shaping of “the national mind and the national policy.”

t. s. eliot

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