b)English lang and lit. at school is not well enough taught and not well enough learnt, either.
c)Philosophy is not yet universally taught to children.
It's also, from my experience as a therapist, interesting how much people can be surprised, worried etc. when I take what they say and the way they say it seriously. So the language we're talking about also survives because not too many people involved are taking the language particularly seriously.
Around the top of my hate list is "friendly fire", a very soft way of saying we're killing our own side. Disgusting.