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Do schools kill creativity?

Algunas expresiones y vocabulario del vídeo:

- English is taking over: take over = asumir el control
- It's on its way on becoming: está en camino de convertirse
- To shape: dar forma, moldear
-  That is a marvelously enticing idea: enciting /intáising/ = seductor
- Worldview: visión del mundo, cosmovisión. That there's a worldview that you have if you speak one of those language
- To imbibe: absorber, embeber. If you want to imbibe a culture,  if you want to imbibe the culture, you have to control to some degree the language that the culture happens to be conducted in. There's no other way.
- To shape: dar forma. And so gradual consensus is becoming that language can shape thought, but it tends to be in rather darling, obscure psychological flutters.
- They speak English but it's not their native language, they'd rather not speak English. And they speak it more slowly, they have accents, they're not idiomatic.- One reason to learn them is because they are tickets to being able to participate in the culture of the people who speak them, just by virtue of the fact that it is their code.