Giulio Siciliano’s Reviews > The Abolition of Man. Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools > Status Update

''We grasp at useless words: we call it the ‘basic’, or ‘fundamental’, or ‘primal’, or ‘deepest’ instinct. It is of no avail. Either these words conceal a value judgement passed upon the instinct and therefore not derivable from it, or else they merely record its felt intensity, the frequency of its operation, and its wide distribution.'' p.20

«For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess or sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. [...] By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.»

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