One of the charges made by certain modern educators against the liberal arts is that they tend to verbalism, but just the opposite seems to be the case.
The vice of " verbalism" can be defined as the bad habit of using words without regard for the thoughts they should convey and without awareness of the experiences to which they should refer.
The failure in reading-the omnipresent verbalism -of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.