Perhaps enabling our students to love language and reading is the most important ability that a school can give to students ....
.... language permits us (in their words) to construct "from 25 or 30 sounds an infinite variety of expressions, which although not having any resemblance in themselves to that which passes through our minds, nevertheless do not fail to reveal all of the secrets of the mind, and to make intelligible to others who cannot penetrate into the mind all that we conceive and all of the diverse movements of our souls."....... read more at http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37725-noam-chomsky-on-the-evolution-of-language-a-biolinguistic-perspective for an interview with Noam Chomsky, the scholar who single-handedly revolutionized the modern field of linguistics, the interview discusses the evolution of language and lays out the bio-linguist perspective -- the idea that a human being's language represents a state of some component of the mind. regards Guru IT for Change, Bengaluru www.ITforChange.net -- *For doubts on Ubuntu and other public software, visit http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions **Are you using pirated software? Use Sarvajanika Tantramsha, see http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Public_Software ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಇಲಾಖೆಗೆ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ***If a teacher wants to join STF-read http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Become_a_STF_groups_member --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KannadaSTF - ಕನ್ನಡ ಭಾಷಾ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರ ವೇದಿಕೆ" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to kannadastf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to kannadastf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kannadastf. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/kannadastf/CANJf2f_gSJJVJCMWJGHzkQchH26NxJbQKdfD2wD_0qyZgfJEFw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.