filamentosmovimentos

" ... (at home, when I was a child) there were a lot of word games, attention to words, reading aloud to each other..."

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"the encouragement is the pleasure of thinking together with other people who are enjoying thinking. And thinking, not just puzzle solving or something like that, but thinking about the things that really matter to you, discovering what things really matter to you and how they connect with conditions in the real world. And discovering that you are not alone in what matters to you and in what might be done about it."

“Since human beings are not merely political animals, but also language-using animals, their behavior is shaped by their ideas, (...), the interpretation of ambiguous concepts, attention to words and the changing meanings of words"