"Triviality", said the late Professor Tawney, "is more deadly than wickedness" and, at the time, he was attacking the thin
outlines of the simplified textbook.
This emphasizes the dilemma
constantly facing the teacher.
How can the historian span the
centuries yet satisfy the scholars' demand for depth? How can the
geographer "cover the world" yet not oversimplify to the point of dull
triviality or even untruth".
E. C Marchant (1964)
Source: MARCHANT, E. C. “Geography in Education in England and Wales.” Geography, vol. 49, no. 3, 1964, pp. 173–191. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40566368
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