It's also releveant that the author feels perfectly justified in making recourse to a hypothesis about history which far from easy to test: “The idea of genius elaborated during the Romantic Age (late 18th and 19th centuries) has done harm to education.”
Compared to what? Clearly he doesn’t know how to make a historical argument — perhaps he considers such arguments beneath him.
Compared to what? Clearly he doesn’t know how to make a historical argument — perhaps he considers such arguments beneath him.