spectacle-eyed

Updated: January 18, 2026

Do we want them to enter upon the duties of life stoop-shouldered, flat-chested, spectacle-eyed? Do we want them to be anæmic, pessimistic, nervous wrecks? Do we want them to be mental weaklings and moral cowards? Do we want them even to approximate these conditions? No?

Adoniram Judson Ladd - On the Firing Line in Education