Really? Are people actually getting taught that?
I mean I have 5 scholarly degrees and speak several languages, yet I’m incapable of processing this command. It looks like a meaningless jumble of words. How can one “always justify one’s actions”? I just used the toilet, sorry for the TMI. Am I now supposed to go knock on a neighbor’s door and justify that action? Or should I justify it right here on the blog? I could do that, of course, but in the 10 minutes that have passed since that action, I have engaged in about 50 more. Should I justify them all?
And who should be the recipient of my explanations as to how I feel? Other than my doctor, I can’t imagine anybody all that interested in constant updates on how I feel and what I’ve been doing about it.
This is just a small example of why generalizations suck. The linked blogger could have written a much more interesting post had s/he started it with “I was raised by a bunch of very eccentric folks who taught me these ridiculous things I will now tell you about.”
P.S. I will save you time and tell you what that long and boring post is about. Its message is that students are very inarticulate. I know, this must come as a total shock. Especially after such a highly articulate beginning to a post that discusses the issue.
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