"Teachable moment" is that phrase annoying?

[cherish44]

I vote YES

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. As pretentious and presumptuous,

it wins, hands down.......................

[LostInAnomie]

2. Get into education and you'll hear it so much you'll want to kill yourself.

Mostly from administrators.

[Strong Atheist]

7. +1 nt.

[Mythsaje]

3. No, but it could be... n/t

[Heidi]

4. Is it even grammatically correct? Is the moment itself teachable?

Or is it a moment from which a teaching opportunity can be derived?

[Enthusiast]

5. A teachable moment

is a moment where circumstances illuminate an otherwise difficult to communicate concept. We often hear something described as a teachable moment when it isn't. To me teachable moments can be real and valuable.

[Heidi]

6. I agree that this is what the term is meant to convey and I agree that there are

special and valuable circumstances in which teaching more fluidly takes place. It just strikes me as odd because the phrase seems to be describing a moment as something apt to learn or capable of learning, when in fact a moment cannot learn. Perhaps the term "teachable moment" expresses the second definition of "teachable" (2 :favorable to teaching) and not the first (1 a: capable of being taught b: apt and willing to learn). :hi:

[datasuspect]

8. i got a teachable moment in my pants

[Moondog]

9. Yet another buzzword / phrase used and abused by the intellectually bankrupt.

[mitchum]

10. EFI (Educators For Initialism) prefers "TM"...

not "teachable moment"