Sciolism

Example (as used by Caroline Winterer in The Culture of Classicism): “American classics teachers’ choice… to focus on grammar rather than other aspects of the classical inheritance resulted from their primary pedagogical goals: to mold gentlemen who navigated between sciolism and pedantry, ministers who could intelligently read the Bible, and citizens who were moral and dutiful.”

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