In addition, there were other candidates which have dropped out. In 1925, for instance, Harold Palmer claimed
that ‘up to forty years ago, the only system of language-teaching generally recognized or practise (in Europe and elsewhere) was the one that is generally alluded to as “The Classical Method” [which] treats all languages as if they were dead’ (Palmer, 1925: 2) These two names of methods are listed within square brackets in our Synoptic Overview above as a reminder that the labels themselves really belong to a later era.