Birth: 1931
Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain..
Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals..
Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you..
Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures..
I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them..
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution..
Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you..
Different languages cut the world into different slices..
We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language....