"Did You Know...
...that the 2 longest one-syllable words in English are 'stretched' and 'screeched'; that no word in English rhymes with 'month,' 'orange,' 'silver'; that 'dreamt' is the only word in English that ends in 'mt'; or that there are only four words in English ending in 'dous': 'tremendous,' 'horrendous,' 'stupendous,' and 'hazardous'?"
These are quotes found in the margins of lessons.
"Language is a process of free creation; it's laws are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a procss of free creation."
-Noam Chomsky, an interesting quote considering the intricacy and concreteness of the lesson that preceded it.
"I have never let schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
-Edward Bulwar Lyton
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
-James Joyce
"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish) but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right."
-Igor Stravinsky
"When we study language, we are approaching what some might call 'human essence,' the distinctive qualities of mind that are, as far as we know, unique to man."
-Noam Chomsky
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
-Francis Bacon
These are all interesting for me, considering the course and its structure. Many of them couldn't be more opposed to the course in content and structure.
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