When was education cancelled?

In discussion boards I have participated in, I have twice come across intelligent individuals writing "Here Here". There, there: I assume they mean "Hear, Hear".
Another piece of appalling english is "to little too late"???!!??
When was the idea of teaching people to use their mother tongue cancelled?
People repeating common sayings by ear with no intervention of a thinking process.
USE ENGLISH. IT IS A RICH LANGUAGE.