Education or something like it....
Was going through my last semester files when I came across my assignment for the"Blake and Wordsworth"course...was quite taken aback by the stiflingly erudite rhetoric... nothing like my usual flights of fancies... given below is an excerpt from it...its actually the conclusion...
the assignment was on "education in Blake and Wordsworth's work"...

"Today the Enlightenment is often viewed as a historical anomaly, a brief moment when a number of thinkers infatuated with reason vainly supposed that the perfect society could be built on common sense and tolerance, a fantasy which collapsed amid the Terror of the French Revolution and the triumphal sweep of Romanticism. Religious thinkers repeatedly proclaim the Enlightenment dead, Marxists denounce it for promoting the ideals and power of the bourgeoisie at the expense of the working classes, postcolonial critics reject its idealization of specifically European notions as universal truths, and postructuralists reject its entire concept of rational thought.
Yet in many ways, the Enlightenment has never been more alive. The notions of human rights it developed are powerfully attractive to oppressed peoples everywhere, who appeal to the same notion of natural law that so inspired Voltaire and Jefferson.
The idea of education however is still fidgeting its way to a more concrete state of existence, something Blake and Wordsworth would not be very happy with, for the world still has its Chimney Sweepers and still refuses to acknowledge the genius of it’s Idiot Boys."