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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2536986" data-attributes="member: 19675">Don't blame the system, the educational system is just there to give you the fundamentals and perhaps erect some signs in your line of  sight towards points of interest...The person with the most responsibility for educating a person is THAT PERSON.  I've got friends who learned greek to read certain philosophers in their original words.  I've got a personal library numbering thousands of books: fiction and non-fiction; sci/fantasy and "classics;" philosophy and sciences.If the writers of today are poorly read, then its on their own heads.Besides, even those writers with brilliant minds make occasional gaffes.  I've read several ruminations on the craft by luminaries like Asimov, Niven, Bester and others who point out (with great humor, I might add) the errors they and others have made in their worlds' physics, economics, continuity, and even the basics of grammar.Example:  Zelazny's 10 book cycle of The Chronicles of Amber has recently been collected into an omnibus edition...and the stories are FULL of innapropriately used homonyms.  Ultimately, the final error in the missed corrections is on the part of the editors...but Zelazny erred FIRST and FUNDAMENTALLY.</blockquote>