Communication Quote by Stephen King

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an…

— Anonymous

“Reading is the least laborious of all the tasks that fall to the student's lot.”

— Quintilian

“What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else, when the result is to wind…

— Philip Roth

“Yep. I’m forced to test my 1st graders on tests where they are expected to do a close reading of a passage and answer…

— Terry Marselle

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

“Advancing no particular theory of their own, some insist that explicit teaching of grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and even pronunciation is necessary because students…

— James Crawford

“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same encounter with…

— Anne Rice

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd