I really wish writers would avoid the use of military analogies when writing about learning and technology. There's no sense in which education has a 'front line', or a 'trench', or a 'battlefield'. I know it has been popular recently to talk about "front line workers", but they are more accurately "customer-facing" or "people-facing" workers, and their role is usually to serve and support, not to engage in battle. When I go to school or to work, I am not entering combat. More often than not I am seeking to work with people rather than against them. And even when we're working against each other, any escalation to the norms of warfare signify failure, rather than business as usual, let alone success.
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