Education Quote by Mia Alvar

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

— Doris Lessing

Ectoplasmic plane? What the devil is that? (Simone) It’s jargon from those of us who are corporeally challenged. It’s the great beyond where we…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

— Shirley Hufstedler

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for…

— Richard Mitchell

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and…

— Harold Rosenberg

“Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it…

— Russell T. Davies

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

— Anonymous

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved…

— Pierre Hadot

I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot…

— Bill Press

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's the line…

— Constance Hale