Percy's “The Loss of the Creature” states throughout the essay that cultural forces interfere with the individual’s “sovereign” right. Percy argues that an individual should not see themselves as “ a consumer experience, but as a sovereign individual” (493). His ideas can be relevant to education and how education continues to “package” both the academic material and a individual learning. Education steals the individual's “sovereign” right by “packaging” everything. Individual's are not given a line of text or code and told to explore, they are given the material and the information about the material without a chance to explore the concept them self. Percy want individual's to “exercising the sovereign right of a person in his lordship and mastery of…show more content… In the class room students shouldn't be directed into a path that the teacher sees, but let loose to explore the topic and to explore what they see as important. What we as a culture should be doing is setting up the topic and monitoring them but we should not interfere with the exploration. Giving students a topic and then telling them to explore is the best thing we can do, they will find things out about the topic whether it be observing or researching. But because every student needs grades to advance in the educational system we will grade them but on what they are finding out on there own. If the student slacks off and does not look through there eyes at the object of study then they will fail. A student that video tapes the object of study researches the object and tries his or her best learning about that object then they will pass and also be a student that reclaim their rights as a sovereign individual. One can not force people to study nor force them to be sovereign individuals, They must work for themselves and become what they want to be we just need to set them on the path and say go and