Our visual discrimination is far better than our linguistic system at dealing with complex ratios and continuous variations in space, line, shape, an… - Jay Lemke

Minds are formed by our social interactions in a community and a culture.

[Teachers] emphasize the human side of science: real activities by real human beings, both today and in specific periods of history. Personal characteristics of scientists, with which students can identify, should be emphasized rather than making scientists seem superhuman or alien.

When I speak about discourse in general, I will usually mean the social activity of making meanings with language and other symbolic systems in some particular kind of situation or setting.