The language others speak to us, from childhood, shapes the attitudes and beliefs that ground how we use all our powers of action. - Jay Lemke

We will document a single instance of a widespread and increasingly dominant political strategy in modern society: the transformation of discourses of expert knowledge into discourses of social policy.

Scientific language that is correct and serious so far as teachers and students are concerned must follow these stylistic norms:

Science does not speak of the world in the language of words alone, and in many cases it simply cannot do so. The natural language of science is a synergistic integration of words, diagrams, pictures, graphs, maps, equations, tables, charts, and other forms of visual and mathematical expression... [Science thus consists of] the languages of visual representation, the languages of mathematical symbolism, and the languages of experimental operations.