Percy presents a type of tourist, which is the "simple tourist". The "simple tourist" helps Percy to describe someone who succumbs to the "loss of sovereignty". In Percy's view, someone who is a "simple tourist" goes along with what the expert's comment on. They stay on the "beaten track". When he describes the "beaten track" he means the road that everyone follows put forth by experts. People follow the "beaten track" knowing what lies ahead of them, and thinking that it is the best way to go. Experts

Because they are expected to follow what expert say, their path is already predestined for them. The students suffer from a "loss of sovereignty" because the experts want the students to learn through the educational package that contains the preconceived notions of the expertise. Du Bois said that nothing will change in the educational system, thus, the students never get a chance to explore other than what experts expect and give them to learn. Percy would describe Du Bois students as "simple" students who are letting expert opinions control what they do, and how they perceive information. The expert's guidance help to "form [the thoughts] in the sightseer's mind" (Percy, 566), thus, it takes away from the genuine experience. Percy would describe Du Bois students as "simple" students who are letting expert opinions control what they do, and how they perceive information.

Percy would disagree with Du Bois that "old time glorified methods of delving the Truth, and searching the hidden beauties of life, and learning the good of living" is through being a "simple" student. One cannot be forced into liking something if they are truly not interested in it, but Du Bois argued that education is something that is necessary without taking into consideration the students desire to learn. Percy though, argued with an example that, "A student who has the desire to get at a dogfish or a Shakespeare sonnet may have the greatest difficulty in salvaging the creature itself from the educational package in which it is presented" (573). Percy suggests that the "educational package" gets in the way for a student to explore because within the educational system, there are always rules which can limit and deny the student their genuine experience of exploring on their own. Percy sees that, "...the citizen of Huxleys's Brave New World who stumbles across a volume of Shakespea

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