Introducing "Education and the English Language," a periodic series.
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More than any other space in American public thought and comment, I find "education" beset with corrupt, unhelpful, or dishonest uses of language. Start with the word itself. We can come much closer as a society to defining with clarity the concept of "war," for all its euphemisms, than we can the concept of "education." War essentially means killing people and applying coercive violence at scale to achieve national/ethnic political or economic goals that are contrary to an enemy's. I don't think anyone would fundamentally disagree with that.
Introducing "Education and the English Language," a periodic series.
Introducing "Education and the English…
Introducing "Education and the English Language," a periodic series.
More than any other space in American public thought and comment, I find "education" beset with corrupt, unhelpful, or dishonest uses of language. Start with the word itself. We can come much closer as a society to defining with clarity the concept of "war," for all its euphemisms, than we can the concept of "education." War essentially means killing people and applying coercive violence at scale to achieve national/ethnic political or economic goals that are contrary to an enemy's. I don't think anyone would fundamentally disagree with that.