diff --git a/docs/design_philosophies.txt b/docs/design_philosophies.txt
index 720694e7a39..2084c992a56 100644
--- a/docs/design_philosophies.txt
+++ b/docs/design_philosophies.txt
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Assume designer competence
 The template system shouldn't be designed so that templates necessarily are
 displayed nicely in WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver. That is too severe of
 a limitation and wouldn't allow the syntax to be as nice as it is. Django
-expects some level of code competence in template authors.
+expects template authors are comfortable editing HTML directly.
 
 Treat whitespace obviously
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