supernormalized

Updated: May 16, 2025

Instead of making in the lower grades certain toys which are masterpieces of mechanical simplification, as tops and kites, and introducing such processes as glass-making and photography, and in higher grades making simple scientific apparatus more generic than machines, to open the great principles of the material universe, all is sacrificed to supernormalized method.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene