I was never a fan of this advice to remove all reference to the self when making a statement. If you think everything is broken or complicated and you don’t think you have strong reasons to think you’re doing any better than average, why pretend that everything is fine and we can just be authorities on the way that things are rather than how they impressed us as being?
My English teacher took off grades every time I explained things as though from a perspective as humble and precarious as honest, good epistemics require me to report; using terms like “I think” and “it may be the case”.
Now, I could understand if the idea was that no one knew anything and we were all just roleplaying and that school was there to teach me to roleplay. But her defense against my skepticism towards non-subjective reporting was, and I quote, “there’s a system for how these things work; it’ll be explained in later grades.”
It was at that time I was getting truly fed up with my educators. I will not lie about my confidence in my authority.
I was never a fan of this advice to remove all reference to the self when making a statement. If you think everything is broken or complicated and you don’t think you have strong reasons to think you’re doing any better than average, why pretend that everything is fine and we can just be authorities on the way that things are rather than how they impressed us as being?
My English teacher took off grades every time I explained things as though from a perspective as humble and precarious as honest, good epistemics require me to report; using terms like “I think” and “it may be the case”.
Now, I could understand if the idea was that no one knew anything and we were all just roleplaying and that school was there to teach me to roleplay. But her defense against my skepticism towards non-subjective reporting was, and I quote, “there’s a system for how these things work; it’ll be explained in later grades.”
It was at that time I was getting truly fed up with my educators. I will not lie about my confidence in my authority.