Well-meaning teachers encourage my kids to use more "vocabulary" words in their writing. I tell them that on this one point they can ignore their teachers, because the best writing uses the simplest possible words.
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Those same well-meaning teachers will be grading their essays though, with their flawed idea of good writing.
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Definitely agree, but a lot of kids unfortunately get those incentives confused.
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Then Paul's teaching the kids 2 things at once.
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Perhaps circumlocutive verbosity is part of the journey of mastery ?
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And that is what tech should enable in “education”. No need for it to be tightly coupled with schools, but only with “becomes able to do x well”.
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Then it’s all in choosing the x’s. Some essential x’s, but there can also be a great diversity of x’s.
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True, but not always true. (1) Knowing when to fight and when to cave to a gatekeeper is also a valuable life skill. (2) If the goal of the writing exercise is practicing vocabulary not the writing per se.
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They are not mutually exclusive.
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I think the real issue is that no one is discussing y??
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Better to both write simple and clear prose, learn how to play the stupid game of more vocab for written tests laid out by academics as little as possible, graduate and never look back.
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