Wolf K wrote:

The rot set in when universities dropped the Eng Lit requirement for all
degrees, and substituted "composition" classes.

Sorry, but you don't learn how to write in today's language by reading
Shakespeare. English Literature wasn't about teaching how to write.
Many people could read Dickens but they still couldn't write worth a
damn.

Even teaching grammar is insufficient if you want to understand English.
Grammar is just a set of common rules with lots of exceptions.
Linguistics taught you how the language worked; however, as I recall,
linguistics was not required in college, just the composition classes.