Verbal Roots Beginning

Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:

“Adults understandably assume that the level of verbal proficiency a five-year-old displays represents his level of proficiency in all areas of functioning—if he talks like an adult, he must think and feel like one. However, five-year-olds,... belie the promise of adult-like behavior with their child-like, impulsive actions.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)

“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.”
—John Hersey (1914–1993)