" My sympathies are classical from education, but in this discussion I am personally unable to arrive at a conclusion.
I see no distinct grounds for classical studies being given a preeminence over scientific studies.
" "The natural sciences have just as great an educational value," put in Pestsov.
" Take astronomy, take botany, or zoology with its system of general principles.
" "I cannot quite agree with that," responded Alexey Alexandrovitch "It seems to me that one must admit that the very process of studying the forms of language has a peculiarly favorable influence on intellectual development.