In “Learning as Freedom”—an editorial published on September 5, 2012 in The New York Times—Michael Roth argues that rather than structuring education around specific vocations, “making the grade,” and turning people into “robots” designed to complete certain tasks, education should allow individuals to be free to grow and learn while gaining necessary skills and finding their purpose and significance in life and work. Roth accomplishes this with the use of exemplification, using examples such as reports or well known people and their ideas to support his argument. He also makes use of description, implimenting metaphors such as "human capital" and "plasticity" to further his point. With the use of these aforementioned rhetorical modes and more, Roth presents his argument in a compelling and literate way which causes his reader to, if nothing else, ponder his ideas and relevency.