 Also in 1934 , Pound published an essay critiquing existing methods for teaching literature in general and university @-@ level instruction methods in particular . He identifies the root of the problem as abstraction and uses the word " liberty " as an example of a term where a specific , concrete meaning has been lost . Pound finds this situation " inexcusable AFTER the era of ' Agassiz and the fish ' " and demands an approach to general education that " parallels [ ... ] biological study based on <unk> and <unk> of particular specimens . " 
