brain-cramming

Updated: June 21, 2025

At the end of the year, the child is sent into the first grade, where the barbaric process of competitive education and brain-cramming is carried on as sincerely as it was in Fröbel's time.... A kindergarten teacher told me in that low intense way, which speaks of many tears exhausted: "I dare not look into the first-grade rooms. We have done so differently by them through the first year.

Will Levington Comfort - Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation