" We act as if we thought this tool of language were perfect, and children had only to learn to use it correctly--i.e., as we do. In fact, it is in many ways a most imperfect tool. If we were more aware of its imperfections, of the many ways in which it does not fit the universe it attempts to describe, of the paradoxes and contradictions built into it, then we could warn the children, help them see where words and experience did not fit together, "

― John C. Holt , How Children Fail