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Karen Chung
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“It may well be that individuals who are attracted into linguistics have a certain talent for metalinguistic reflection—a delight in constructing ungrammatical sentences, finding curious ambiguities and implicatures, hearing and imitating accents, and the like—and that professional training as a linguist only amplifies this proclivity. It would then be no surprise that linguists’ sense of what is interesting in language is different from that of our friends in biology, economics, and dentistry. It is just that we linguists have made the mistake of assuming everyone else is like us.”
― Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
― Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
― HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“I remember watching an episode of The West Wing about education in America, which the majority of people rightfully believe is the key to opportunity. In it, the fictional president debates whether he should push school vouchers (giving public money to schoolchildren so that they escape failing public schools) or instead focus exclusively on fixing those same failing schools. That debate is important, of course—for a long time, much of my failing school district qualified for vouchers—but it was striking that in an entire discussion about why poor kids struggled in school, the emphasis rested entirely on public institutions. As a teacher at my old high school told me recently, “They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
― My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
“it’s true that frequency doesn’t have to be a daily frequency; what’s most important is consistency. The more widely spaced your work times, however, the less you reap all of these benefits.”
― Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
― Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
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