The Teaching of English: A New Approach (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The most important of those theories is concerned with ideals, and insists that the true aim of English-teaching is not to provide a supply of clerks and office-boys, but to open the gates of that enchanted world in which Richard Peverel dwelt as the type of educated adolescence, 'lord of kingdoms, where Beauty was his handmaid, and History his minister, and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bride; where he walked in a realm vaster and more gorgeous than the great Orient, peopled with heroes that have been,' the magic realm of Literature.

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