We have compared bad use of language to a scurvy condition of the skin. To cure the skin we must doctor the blood, and to improve the language we should begin by teaching the mind to think. But that, you will say, is a large undertaking. Yes, but after all it is the most direct and effective way. All education should be in the nature of teaching the mind to think, and the teaching of language cons...
Sherwin Cody - The art of speaking the english language
The art of speaking the english language
Sherwin Cody
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We have compared bad use of language to a scurvy condition of the skin. To cure the skin we must doctor the blood, and to improve the language we should begin by teaching the mind to think. But that, you will say, is a large undertaking. Yes, but after all it is the most direct and effective way. All education should be in the nature of teaching the mind to think, and the teaching of language consists in teaching thinking in connection with word forms and expression through language.