PRONUNCIATION: (GRAED-grInd)
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MEANING: (noun) – A dull bean-counter, an impersonal person, interested solely in facts and figures with little sympathy for human needs.
ETYMOLOGY: The eponym of today’s word is a mill owner in Dickens’ ‘Hard Times,’ who propounds the Gradgrind Educational System, a system that prepares young people for the repetitious, rote work of the Industrial Age. In his essay, ‘Schools I do not Like’ (1857), Dickens referred to such schools as producing “little parrots and small calculating machines.” Gradgrind’s name parallels “grindstone,” incorporating the sense of “the (daily) grind” (a British school term first published in 1851) and “graduate,” and fits an educational system designed to graduate youth prepared for the boring grind of work in the Industrial Age.
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