According to Betrand Russell, what defect is inherent in a purely classical education?From essay "The Place of Science in a Liberal Education,"...

Bertrand Russell states
that.

One
defect, however, does seem inherent in a purely classical education--namely, a too
exclusive emphasis on the past (para.
5).

He goes on to explain
that looking only toward the past blinds us to the present and the possibilities of the
future.  What we see in the past is refined or perfected, but the present can be raw and
unattractive, and looking at the past does not necessarily help us to see what is around
us or to imagine what might be.  He points out that as we view the past, what we do not
see is that the beauty and richness came out of the same raw and unattractive state,
something that is often not addressed.  This leaves us with misperceptions about our own
times and a failure of imagination about the future.