"Gradgrindery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001, Justin Lewis, Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It:",
          "text": "For others, the process of reducing words to numbers is like sucking the life out of language, a remorseless exercise in Gradgrindery whose limited worldview masquerades as objectivity and universal truth.",
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          "ref": "2007 April 18, John Bull, “Obituary: Tony Neville”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Tony often contrasted the humanistic ideals of his heroes and teachers with the dry, bureaucratic Gradgrindery which he felt characterised many attempts at educational \"reform\".",
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          "ref": "2013 November 7, Ian Barge, “Children must learn to question, not simply obey”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Polly Toynbee is spot on in her excoriation of Govian Gradgrindery. The inevitable marginalisation of the supposedly \"soft\" arts subjects in the state sector is a scandal.",
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