Why We Still Teach Language

"In the previous, exclusively oral culture, language controlled people and their behaviour; with writing, the reverse became true. Societies that could read and write achieved a degree of control over language that allowed them to gain a new kind of mastery over their destinies" (De Kerckhove, 194).

Quote from:

De Kerckhove, Derrick, The Skin of Culture: Investigating the New Electronic Reality. Toronto: 

     Somerville House Publishing, 1995. Print.

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