Cram not Cultivation.

The meaning of the whole paragraph hinges on the meaning of the one word cultivate (or cultivation), which occurs many times. Unfortunately, this is used more than loosely; it is used to express diametrically opposed ideas. Where employed in regard to education, "cultivation" may be fairly defined as "the promotion of growth and development of mental faculties and potential titles by study," and nothing but confusion can result when the term is used both in thus sense and in the sense of "overloading the memory, and thus restricting growth and development of mental faculties and potentialities." Now it is laid down in logic that "whenever a person uses equivocal words in such a was as to confuse the different meanings and fall into error, he may be said to commit the fallacy of equivocation "—not the only fallacy involved in the paragraph under consideration, which may be analysed an criticised as follows:—