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Gary Probst wrote: Never in class refer to students as "you people." Neal Steiger wrote: > > >reminded me of the Becoming a Master Student > >video #5 "You create it all" by David Ellis. > > Craig, I don't know if mine was one of those threads or not, but a comment > I made recently grew directly out of my appreciation of a revision Dave > Ellis made of the Power Process, "You Create It All," when he changed it to > "I Create It All" (its current name in the 8th edition of Becoming a Master > Student (Houghton Mifflin). > > I happened to be at a seminar in South Dakota the year he did that. Dave > explained that many people felt understandably condescended to when someone > else, a stranger or even a friend, used the "You." Worse yet, it could > have the effect of putting the speaker into the position of thinking that > they knew better than the listener what they were experiencing. The "I" > puts the personal responsibility back where it belongs, in the mind of the > speaker, who can best teach by example. > > I suppose in a collaborative context, we might use the "We." > > :) > > Neal Steiger > NH Community Technical College > 379 New Prescott Hill Road > Laconia NH 03246 > phone: 603-524-3207 fax: 603-524-8084 > "Even a planarian worm can learn." --Eunice Cornish