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The greatest weakness of the school is that the list of works was compiled in 1922 and has changed only incrementally since. It's also a great _strength_ of the school, but you could enter the world in 1988 from SJC knowing absolutely nothing about it. I'm sure that that's still true now.

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And, for all the talk of timelessness, the list was already quite reactionary in 1922. Vaguely Amish, in some sense, tbh.

I do really like the pedagogical approach. I just wish that approach to learning and teaching could move on from a very particular cultural moment in pre-war Britain/America. All those crusty Oxbridge guys who had Strong Feelings about reading tons of Euclid were reacting to their own cultural moments and have now been dead for half a century :)

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