My new pet peeve is the use of the word “disruptive” in a positive way. The idea of “looking for disruptive educational strategies” sounds dumb.
This bastardized business jargon is beyond annoying.
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I think it’s a symptom of our time that the ideology of “disruption” has replaced the older notion of “progress”.
Progress at least promised that things would improve, even if there was a disorienting period of change to be got through first. “Disruption” doesn’t promise anything except instability.
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“It’s instability as an end in itself.”
AKA…. the pursuitof fluidity by idiots who don’t understand what it really means.
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To whom are they selling “disruptive educational strategies” as a positive?
Future Best Sellers:
Float Like an Ice Cube, Flow Like Water, Vaporize Like Mist: Change States,
Transform Globe
The Witness Protection Advantage: How Upending My Life Turned Me Into a Fortune 10 CEO
From Hieroglyphs to Emojis: Disrupt Semiotics
California Dreaming: Landing the Big One When the Earth is UpheavingWhy is business jargon or specifically marketing jargon so…inane?
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