Language changes. That is usually a good thing but not always. A wise educational veteran, speaking to me of interviews for teaching posts, recently illustrated that.
“What is your vision for the school/your department/your subject?” is now a standard interview question. “When I first came into teaching 40 years ago,” he said, “you would have been locked up if you said you had ‘a vision’. Today you can’t get a job without one.”
My own bête noire at interviews was the reiterated use of “passion”, especially when applicants told me of their “passion” for their subject. I was always tempted to tell them that I hoped they’d passion for their wife/husband/partner (although that of course was really none of my business), but that if they had a “passion” for physics or geography or PE they were truly sad people.
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