Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

- Jean Berko Gleason

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

- Jean Berko Gleason

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.

- Jean Berko Gleason

Different languages cut the world into different slices.

- Jean Berko Gleason

I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.

- Jean Berko Gleason

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

- Jean Berko Gleason

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

- Jean Berko Gleason

Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.

- Jean Berko Gleason

Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.

- Jean Berko Gleason