In other words,writing with metaphors and similes are essential because writing without them would be dull and horribly boring. ... See, metaphors and similes help paint a picture in your head by comparing familiar things with more vague ones.
Why metaphor matters in education
I track the influence, presence and pivotal role of changes in the understanding
of metaphor, which accompanied the paradigm shift from objectivism to pluralism and relativism in education. These shifts are also reflected in the choice of
teaching methodology. I argue that metaphors are constitutive of educational
activities, events and processes and that they inter alia mediate foundational
world view assumptions of these events and activities. Metaphor carries epistemic and ideological freight, functions as a vehicle of a world view and provides
access to a discipline’s assumptions about the way the world and humankind
are structured.
ALSO..
Most teachers know experientially that their own view of the nature of their task is often expressed by means of metaphor and that metaphor is one of the central ways of leaping the epistemological chasm between old and radi- cally new knowledge.
