Earlier you were remarking that schooling saps creativity, and you're not wrong about that. I would say it's worse on the University level than in the lower grades though.
I read some of the things I wrote when I was 15 or 16 and I notice how much more creative and lyrical my language was compared to now. When I got to University professors would punish this with red ink for not writing in a boring academic way, so they gradually beat this out of you until you standardize.
That's not a public vs private issue, since private universities do it as much as public ones, however.
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