Recently I have made an observation that requires something to be said because I am not the only one who has noticed. It comes across as rude and igonrat. Dot get me wronge here I may sound hypocritical, calus or mean I dont care i have just had enoght with the bs that is going on. For example whenever someone says hello it is polite to say hello and acknowledge that they have made your presence known. By not doing this you come across to me as being rude. When someone says hi just say hi back. Just get our differences out of the way and just treat each other like were "friends" eventhough we are not. I am not the only person who has noticed this so why dont you just get what ever is stuck up in you out and become less abrasive. I know I sound abrasive right now but I have the right to be. What is done is done... that cant be fixed but why dont we just move on. Were not in high school anymore so cut it out.
Another obsevation that I have noticed is during critiques. Some people get to say alot about pieces of work and others say nothing at all. It seems like alwas the same people critquing and saying things. I don't know why this is bother some more now actually to be honest it FRUSTRATING not getting feed back. We are all here to collaborate and get input but when in critues we just seem to keep our mouths shut. Isnt the prupose to talk about eache atothers work no matter if it is a friend or foe. Or if you are going to hurt their feelings or not. The person getting hurt needs to grow a bit of a skin it part of life hearing things you dont want to hear. Let me ask this How do you feel when it comes to your artwork and its always the same people talking about it or when your the one "on the chopping block" so to speak.. How do you feel when no one talks at all? Do you feel frustrated? Thirsty for some imput... I certainly do so speak up...!!!! Input in my opinion helps a person grow and helps the other grow because you verbalize what you see and gets you t produce criticim in a way that is productive to a person. I have just been pondering this for weeks on end and I think it is about time I should say something because it is always silent when talking in critique not just on my work but on others works and it is always the same people talking about the work. I have many more rants but I think due to the subject matter they are best not to put them here because of the subject matter is not sutiable for this particular blog. entry atleast. I would like to dumb down like I dumbed down the first half of this blog another rant but I dont know how to do that without taking out alot of the juice. Well like I said in my last entry I should leave this place and get on to other things. before I go to Lebanon tonight eeks...!!!
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Etiquette has never been commonplace. By its nature it tends to be the province of those who have the time to devote to learning its fine points.
Formerly, while it was not specifically part of school curricula, it was emphasized in most classrooms. For various reasons too long to discuss here it is little considered anymore, although from time to time initiatives are launched to teach "courtesy" or values of some sort. In the States this is often blocked by a "superstition" that the US Constitution forbids the teaching of values, as they are tied to religion, and religion cannot be established by the state, state schools therefore must not establish religion, therefore religion must not be taught, therefore morals must not be taught. The notion is fallacious, but persistent.
Yet ever were values being taught consciously, deliberately, openly, in schools, one of the characteristics of late adolescence is questioning autority and tradition, so we should anticipate in a college environment, in which most of the students are in late adolescence, rudeness might very well be common -- and it is.
Those who aim to be courteous have the advantage of rudeness around them to give focus to the aim. We cannot simply bow to rudeness, yet we confront it: can we confront it gracefully, with the invitation to be courteous?
As to the matter of class participation: well, this is difficult to manage. I think those who do not participate regularly must be specifically and deliberately challenged to participate: this is primarily the business of the instructor -- either to ask frequent participators to be silent for a while, or to call on the generally silent persons to speak.
Only secondarily do I think this the business of the students, but were students to encourage others to participate, that would be much the best.
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