Hard Times exposes the evils of cramming in the teaching practised in the normal school in which Mr. M'Choakumchild was trained, and in the definition repetition as given by Bitzer, and so highly praised by Mr. Gradgrind: "Bitzer, your definition of a horse:" "Quadruped, Graminivorous.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
They knew, or they could say, that a cow was "a Graminivorous ruminating quadruped," and that was enough, in the philosophy of Mr. Gradgrind.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The great roads and highways made by Graminivorous animals, from those which the hippopotamus cuts through the mammoth canes and reeds of the African streams, to the smaller rabbit highways of England and America, all tell their own story of how these animals live and travel.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon