Education and Authority

The preface and structure reveal a serious pedagogical intent, yet the book's errors undermine the authority of the author as a language instructor, satirizing the pretensions of educational texts.

The preface positions the author as an authority correcting the deficiencies of previous language guides, targeting the youth as the primary audience.

Education and Authority is one of the patterns English as She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.