The following passage from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series says it all in regard to this type of word salad speak:
“The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications – in short, all the goo and dribble – he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out.
Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.”
You’ll note her appointment is at what used to be called a ‘teachers’ college’. The foundational idea behind a teacher’s college is that aspirant teachers would benefit from formal training in planning lessons, suppressing disruptions, designing tests, and evaluating student submissions. An elaboration on that idea is that different segments of the teacher population benefit from a different array of methods instructions, different practicum placements, and different substantive courses of study. I think if you look at the curriculum of the vast majority of ‘schools of education’, you’ll discover aspirant teachers are getting a great deal of what this witless grifter is offering and very little practical instruction. There is no component of higher education quite like the ‘school of education’ in that they perform a notionally useful function while at the same time meriting closure. A responsible state legislature would shut down the schools of education in the state system and strip the ones at private colleges of their franchise to certify teachers.
Note, this is another piece of evidence that academe is what Fr. Shaughnessy calls ‘sociologically corrupt’ – unable to reform itself with its own resources and processes. The faculty, the provost, the president, the board at Syracuse University own this situation.
Oh, I get it well enough all right. If you don’t “take on” their woke ideology, ..if you speak coherently and don’t routinely resort to bullsh*t, they won’t talk to you. Ever.
..Sadly, ..well this DID come from academia. How many term papers and essays did any of us write in college? When we didn’t have much of substance to say, ..we routinely resorted to extra flowery language and quasi-intelligent sounding verbiage to say it.
When we DID have something…involved…to say, our writing had to tighten up REALLY fast to cover everything.
How many term papers and essays did any of us write in college? When we didn’t have much of substance to say, ..we routinely resorted to extra flowery language and quasi-intelligent sounding verbiage to say it.
None in my case.
Translation- if you don’t buy in to the systemic racism and that whites are inherently evil, she can’t play w you anymore.
Ultimately, she negates liberalism. She has blossomed in to the dictator of relativism PB warned about.
I first read the Foundation series (the original three, not the sad disappointments that came much later), and that particular quote is something that I never forgot. There is one other SF quote that stuck with me, from one of Herbert’s later Dune books, “Most revolutionaries are frustrated aristocrats.”
“Most revolutionaries are frustrated aristocrats.”
She’s not frustrated. She’s sitting pretty. She’s also malevolent.
How many term papers and essays did any of us write in college? When we didn’t have much of substance to say, ..we routinely resorted to extra flowery language and quasi-intelligent sounding verbiage to say it.
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None at my Associates degree level. I went to a Christian college where it was tough academically (including 20 hours of Bible.)
None in my Bachelors of Math & Science that took me 5.5 years to complete (full time.) Now my education classes at a state university were a flat joke!!
None in my Masters of Special Education (with emphasis in severe disabilities, and vision degree at a state university. The department chair got mad at me & made me re-write a thesis paper 5 times before signing off on my degree. That did not include all of my Masters degree written examination questions which took hours & hours to answer in writing with no resources except my mind nonstop for 6 hours.
Now, in my post graduate classes in Orientation & Disabilities at the Univ. Of Alabama about 2012 the grading & tasks switched to rubrics, group work, & cooperative projects. Now you could get away with not knowing much there—except out in the field working with adults with disabilities as their life depended on you.