Life is not a performance it is an education

That is obviously a different form of communication than one that is represented in a Toastmasters club, especially a college toastmasters club.  The point is that much of the communication we learn is based on performance and not so much on education.

I am pretty open minded about human expression but when I take the role of grammarian I do mention any use of foul-language in the course of a student presentation and I have my way of recognizing it.   I am not there to condemn it because if a Toastmaster's club is true to the principles of Ralph Smedley, we focus on feedback as our opinion - and as a gift for the speaker, that the speaker is free to dismiss or accept.  Life does not however work that way because people do get caught up in the performance.  In terms of foul-language, I simply make the assessment whether the bad language supported the communication or if it was simply a filler word such as um, so, ah, like etc

There are people who know how to use bad-language in an educational way, where the performance is highly educational, especially when that performance showcases an absurd taboo, and George Carlin's skit fits into this kind of example.

The mistake everyone makes watching Andy Kaufman is thinking he is a comedian, when all the time he was an educator.  This is what happens when we confuse performance for education or make education a performance.  We need education to be an education and this is the promise that I see in a college toastmasters club in a true learning environment - as learners, real students and not people enrolled in all the performances life creates that we get lost in.

The important thing here is that it is not I who will try to change the club I am a member of, for my purposes online or offline are not to change others, it is to come out of all these experiences where I am personally more alive to education, where life is an education and not a performance.  No need to be naked in Central Park, be as smart as Carlin or take a curtain call for having the genius of a Kaufman.