... life, a quiet life which was not life at all". Through this poem, Browning tells us that education should not create automatons. Orwell follows up on this point in his essay, telling us we should not be educated in the language of automatons. Browning and Orwell also spoke about the human thought process ... her aunt's tightly braided hair functions for "Taming accidental thoughts". This taming of thoughts was the effect she felt "liberal" and/or "public" education had on a person; a limiting effect. Similarly, Orwell is saying that language itself limits the expression of our thoughts....

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