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Messing Up Your Kid's Education | Episode XXXVIII

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The Inadequacy of Language

He says that man's language in almost all situations is inadequate. It does not come to the aid of the mind and even fails it when the mind seeks its health in expressing itself. Even if the whole world spoke Latin, we'd still have the confusion of language. Your mind and your tongue don't agree and confuse each other. You want to say something and I'm just not saying it right. Like that's what he's talking about. And so this is why eloquence is important because you can, you're mastering how to speak well and how to communicate precisely in order to avoid those sorts of scenarios"

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