Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland

Polish Language for Teachers

Język polski dla nauczycieli

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: languages
University website: ajp.edu.pl
Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Teachers
A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.
William Shenstone, The School Mistress, Stanza 28.
Teachers
Fas est ab hoste doceri.
It is lawful to be taught by an enemy.
Language
Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
Gene Wolfe, "The Death of Doctor Island", Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr; reprinted in The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009).
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