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Language permits its users to pay attention to things, persons and events, even when the things and persons are absent and the events are not taking place. Language gives definition to our memories and, by translating experiences into symbols, converts the immediacy of craving or abhorrence, or hatred or love, into fixed principles of feeling and conduct. (
- Dawn Redman on 14 Jul 09
  
  John McWhorter, a linguist, makes this point to distinguish animals' "speech" from that of humans.
  
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Vygotsky
- Dawn Redman on 14 Jul 09
  
  "zone of proximal development" guy
  
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our brains are wired for language.
- Dawn Redman on 14 Jul 09
  
  Chomskey's "universal grammar"
  
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teachers of high-achieving students spent about 55 percent of the class time talking, compared with 80 percent for teachers of low-achieving students
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