[TPIN] Educational double speak - tied into trumpet.......

[Ellis Workman]

> Rick's very verbose statements about education really did remind me of
> school board meetings that I have attended, where the administrators
> really do
> talk like that to try to confuse their adversaries.
> OK - I will "let it go" now...............................
> Mike Vax
>
>
>

I won't, This is an axe in need of grinding...

<RANT MODE ON>

As music and trumpet teachers we all are compelled from
time to time deal with teachers (i.e. educators) and adminstrators.
The education establishment as a whole deliberately uses
pretentious language to appear to be saying *something* when
in fact *nothing* is being said. I am a former teacher
who has suffered much in education courses.

This is not the same sort of use of technical language
(with which I am very familiar) one encounters in other
professions where such language is well defined and has precise
meaning. Educational jargon is used to create the illusion
of scholarship without the its substance. Educational jargonists
missapropriate technical sounding language from other disciplines
to create a wall between themselves and a questioning public.

Language can be used for communication or avoiding communication.

Beware of those "facilitators" who employ the word "utilize" rather than
"use", who speak glibbly of paradigms, processes, and outcomes.
Those who make complex nouns of simple verbs, and complex verbs
of simple nouns

<RANT MODE OFF>

"let your yes be yes and your no be no."

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Ellis Workman, ARS KØELW
Grid EN33sx Olmsted County
Rochester, MN US