The author is complaining that formal education is strangling the soul of beautiful English to death. There's some truth to this, although his protests are mis

The author is complaining that formal education is strangling the soul of beautiful English to death. There's some truth to this, although his protests are misaligned. Regimented English classes are not the proper breeding grounds for writing with individualistic expression, they are simply to teach students how to communicate eloquently. Essays and research papers are meant only to communicate and persuade, not enrich and entertain, as one commenter has implied. If one wishes to dine with Twain and Bonte, they can do so in the myriad of creative writing courses available to them. But there is simply no practical use in the idealistic battle between creatives and the man, the corporates, the zombies here. It's a noble pursuit and should flourish, but it's barking up the wrong tree.