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Your brain is not formed when you're born. You have to build your brain.
Jean Berko Gleason
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Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.
Jean Berko Gleason
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Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you.
Jean Berko Gleason
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We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...
Jean Berko Gleason
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Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.
Jean Berko Gleason
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Different languages cut the world into different slices.
Jean Berko Gleason
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Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.
Jean Berko Gleason
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Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.
Jean Berko Gleason
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I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.
Jean Berko Gleason