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...and I don't get why we should go down a path where education is somehow supposed to be bereft of challenge, and people should only take in what they would natively understand. That's the concept that gives us flat-Earthers and fundamentalists. The idea of education is to go beyond what we don't immediately understand, that we can get beyond the denseness of a style of writing in order not just to understand what the writer is saying, but that there may be better ways of saying it, or maybe not. And that's just one way to approach that stanza.