" To the untutored, and therefore to most of our teachers, there is no beauty to grammar. What they know of grammar, which is little enough, is an unorganized heap of apparently arbitrary rules, many of them incorrect at that. Grammar, for them, resembles not the schoolhouse, nor a treasure chest, but the sprawling factory, or perhaps the dirt and rocks plowed up in order to build the factory, which now serve as landfill for what used to be a wonderfully gloomy ravine behind the building. Grammar for them is not architectonic: it does not build, it does not relate one thing to another, it does not shed light everywhere. But they are wrong. "

― Anthony Esolen , Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture