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Re: Dorm wine & taste!

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EVasso
Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:43:54 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-01-14 18:09:53 EST, mamjam writes:

<< Can "Good Taste" be measured? Can "Good Taste" be taught? >>

Mark,

Yeh, I think taste can be measured, though not quantitatively, as in, "She
has C taste" or "He always impressed as a 10 when it comes to judging wine."

Eliot Eisner has written a lot about the idea of critical connoisseurship as
a way to evaluate school programs. He presents it as a qualitative measure,
akin to art criticism.

Can taste be taught? Sure, the caveat being that taste is culturally
dertermined, culturally bound. This is a very interesting issue in the
context of recent assertions that Standard English, meaning white English,
represents language at one end of the standard, while Black English
represents something less.