Davesgud

March 25, 2012

Some recent posters for work.

February 15, 2012 184 notes

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February 15, 2012

This annoys the hell out of me!

This is a school in Sheffield. How ignorant of what is happening in the world around them! Perhaps the business world was populated by suit wearers… in 1980. This is no longer the case! Why is there this insistence on teaching the children the world is a certain way, only to release them into a world that is not that way? And what is the obsession with getting people to speak in a certain way? I completely agree that people need to understand the difference between formal language and informal language, but there also needs to be an acknowledgement of the changing world we live in and the fact that the english language is continually changing. Stopping children using slang in the school gates? Surely speaking to your friends at school in a formal business language (whatever that is) is not going to encourage the appropriate social skills required for employability.What is wrong with colloquialisms? What is wrong with being inventive with the way that you speak? (take Innocent smoothies etc… as an example look at the way they use informal language to sell their products. Or Mackie, their instruction manuals are written using informal language) Stop telling kids to be creative and then, when they are, telling them that they can only be creative in a particular context that suits a particular world view. The formal language of today is different to the formal language of thirty years ago.

The education system is broken, it doesn’t need fixing it needs changing.

February 5, 2012 1,535 notes

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