People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. - Stanley Fish
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
- Stanley Fish
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffectiv… - Stanley Fish
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffectiv…
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. - Stanley Fish
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more? - Stanley Fish
Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?
The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?' - Stanley Fish
The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them. - Stanley Fish
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hour… - Stanley Fish
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hour…
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not. - Stanley Fish
Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the… - Stanley Fish
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the…
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