Sucking Eggs: What Your Wartime Granny Could Teach You about Diet, Thrift and Going Green

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Rosenshine’s principles are, for some teachers, especially in terms of reminding us all about clear communication of new knowledge and strategies. Non-personalized content and ads are influenced by things like the content you’re currently viewing and your location (ad serving is based on general location). A Reproof to those, who think they have more Knowledge than the whole World, and will be ever and anon teaching those who have had more Experience than themselves.

This is for two reasons: a) it shows some respect to those people who have been around the block a few times and b) unless you do this, they won’t be listening to what you say in any case; in fact they may well be actively antagonistic – for good reason.If you’re presenting ideas to experienced teachers, of course it pays to acknowledge that experience. This book by Jonathan Swift is a satire on the use of clichés: its purported author, Simon Wagstaff, “ can faithfully assure the Reader, that there is not one single witty Phrase in this whole Collection, which hath not received the Stamp and Approbation of at least one hundred Years. I remember my old schoolmaster, who was a prodigious great scholar, used often to say, Polly matete cry town is my daskalon.

We need to have something new and valuable to tell our audience about how to compete in their market. Cotton spinners will sometimes use a distaff, sometimes not, depending on how their cotton was prepared. We’re non-experts (to put it mildly) marketing to experts, and that can make us very nervous indeed.A line that goes something like: This marketing is for X [name your experts] who already know ABC [industry fundamentals]. And yet, here was a twitter-grump giving it the full eye-roll emoji with – not like we haven’t been using them for 20 years.

It’s up to us to give our prospects something they’ve never heard before—or never seen in quite the same way.As for the Wikipedia article's surmise that sucking raw eggs was a practice limited to the old and toothless, that notion seems contrary to the historical record, too. What they don't do is actively suck out the yolks and the whites, like some kind of breakfast food vampire. If both sides of the egg-sucking scenario do their bit, we have harmony and can get on with discussing those ideas.

b) They are presented or perceived as a complete description of teaching… when, in reality, we know there are other things to think about too. Stevens, of Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish author): "You would have me teach my Grandame to suck Eggs". Marketing directors and managers may need to listen a lot more to them too—and start having a whale of a time themselves. Let’s say I’m marketing to supply chain managers and I know nothing about supply chains—apart from the gleanings of a frantic Google session.I think it is incorrect to try to assign a literal meaning to the "suck eggs" part, like that thread on Wordwizard tries to do. The Italian phrase cited by this dictionary is properly i paperi voglion menare a bere l’oche and means the goslings want to take the geese to drink.