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Nothing in Excess
Author(s) -
Spurr Frederick S.
Publication year - 1944
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1944.tb03964.x
Subject(s) - exaggeration , nothing , history , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , psychoanalysis
Author's Summary— In foreign language teaching as in many other fields, the world has tended to go from one extreme to another. During the past thirty years, the emphasis has frequently shifted, and many ideas, good per se , have been distorted by exaggeration. Like the ancient Athenians, we should try to find a golden mean.