bigideasfest
George Lakoff, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at U.C. Berkeley, emphasizes that the bridge between existing knowledge and new ideas is imagination. In this talk, he stresses the importance of educators incorporating the arts into educational curriculum, in order to nurture creative thinking.
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This must be shared, and it is urgent.
This explains why language deprivation occurs and consequences are severe. Deaf kids need sign.language to get language, then.learn English. Spoken language has metaphors, like signed language. Once ur brain is wired for language, one can learn more.95% Deaf kids families do not sign. So kids miss that vital time for brain development. Kids who are Deaf [ not just hearing impaired, but DEAF] are developmentally delayed because of lang deficits not disabilities. When a Deaf kid grows up with fluent sign language, they are superior to nonsigning Deaf kids.
Can anyone tell who's the author he recommends reading?
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Julian Janes?
I need his conferences with subtitles in Spanish!!!
I mention and expand on the "fiscal cliff" metaphor George mentions in my post "11/10 misc." at neoideograms.wordpress.com. What I do is graphic metaphors galore. People interested in cognitive science might appreciate that ideograms = image schemas = the very structural stuff of meaning.
"Thinking that you're thinking" hmm sounds like a certain Orange leader of ours ( not mentioning names)
inspiring speech
George"s lectures are like a" breath of fresh air".
Lab experiments on Animals is not cool and twisted as fuck. How is that for framing?
Thank you for this. It is a neat summary of Lakoff's work. Do you have the Question & Answer session?
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