If you have ever set foot inside of a school then undoubtedly you have heard the phrase, "Good job!" spoken in excitedly rising tones to praise a student for doing well. But at what? And this is my problem with this exclamatory cliché. It doesn't provide the child or anyone else for that matter, any bit of detail of why they are being praised in the first place.
Imagine if you were getting your performance appraisal at work and your boss intermittently shouted "Good Job!" to you. ...
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