I found this post about the relationship between thought and language fascinating. Human thought, for the majority, is not simply the individual outcome of our evolved neural architecture, but also the result of our borrowing of the immense symbolic and intellectual resources available in language. What would human thought be like without language? . . .My own feeling, and I have not worked with a population that has a non-Western sense of time, is that it’s likely a softer form of the Whorfian argument, that language and culture affect the perceptual qualities of different sensory channels to...
An incredibly important speech on education by Diane Ravitch
That is a brief clip of Diane Ravitch addressing the Representative Assembly of the National Education Association on July 6, where she was receiving an award as the 2010 "Friend of Education." Please keep reading.The complete text of Diane's speech can be read here. She has given me permission to quote as much as I deem appropriate, including the whole speech if necessary.I won't do that. You can follow the link to read the entire text if so inclined.Let me offer some selections to at least whet your appetite, as well as offer a bit of commentary of my own.... in all of this time, aside from...
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