Why? Why is it that you don't know how to articulate yourself. Is your vocabulary limited? Is your range of thinking limited? Do you have emotional issues and don't know how to properly express yourself?
Twice today, I heard this same exact phrase. In a college classroom that's highly unacceptable. I heard it a lot in high school too, even by some people close to me whom I thought were on a different level intellectually.
What is it about society (because its definately a product of society) that makes it hard for people to articulate? Is it the hours spent in silence on the computer, or the music that expresses our feelings for us so we don't have to? Are we just not trying? Unmotivated to express because we think no one is listening?
From an educator's point of view it has to be a struggle getting kids to cooperate when they can just use this outlet "I don't know how to describe it", or "I know it I just can't put it into words". See to a kid that's just enough to reassure the teacher that they may have read or done the assignment, but not enough that they have to bear their soul or actually speak up in class. Do they see that as a problem? That kids are stifling behind masks of understanding and words they don't know how to expell are choking the life out of them.
Oh but we as students can express everything but whats needed in class. We can talk about how much we hate this or love that artist. We can argue fluently about basketball teams, or pop stars but when it come to academic expression we're mute. Where is the gap? What is getting in the way of true educational freedom and expression?
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