Citations:sciolist

English citations of sciolist

1. One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
   • 1810 May, “Art. VII. A Course of Lectures, containing a Description and Systematic Arrangement of the several Branches of Divinity: accompanied with an Account, both of the Principal Authors, and of the Progress, which has been made, at different Periods, in Theological Learning. By Herbert Marsh, D.D. F.R.S. Margaret Professor of Divinity (in the University of Cambridge). Part I. 8vo. 116 pp. Deighton, Cambridge; and Rivingtons, London. 3s. 1809.”, in The British Critic, volume XXXV, London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, pages 485–486:

     He [Herbert Marsh] aims at nothing more than to direct them [youth] to the genuine fountains of this knowledge, and to teach them how, with the leaſt poſſible labour, they may dig and draw for themſelves; and we do not heſitate to ſay, that the lecturer who attempts more than this, will in fact perform much leſs,—will make his pupils either indolent and ſuperficial ſciolists or absurd bigots, or unite the character of ſciolist and bigot in the ſame individual.

   • 1913 June, The School Journal, volume 80, New York, N.Y.: E. L. Kellogg & Co., →OCLC, page 293:

     In a distinguished contemporary educational journal, a member of the staff of the New York School Inquiry has characterized one of the critics of that inquiry as an "arch-sciolist." What kind of "idealism" is this which argues by and from epithet?