The Only Use of
pedantic
in
Fahrenheit 451
- The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves was that we were not important, we mustn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust-jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.
p. 146.6pedants = people too concerned with academic knowledge
Definition:
too concerned with formal rules, details, or book learning