Monday, 26 March 2012
Third week
That week (the third one), we discussed the first two chapters of the book "Decline and Fall",that Paul Pennyfeather was expelled from Oxford University and then was hired, by Dr. Fagan, as a teacher at Llanabba Castle School in Wales. Also that the author, Evelyn Waugh, to wrote this book, was motivated on his personal teaching experience.
Also in class, we read some texts in the class book about the emergentist perspective, and "The language instinct" of Steven Pinker; that is about that language is a complex, specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously, and that language is a magnificent ability unique to Homo sapiens among living species.
Juan Pablo Cortés
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