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“When we say ‘our rulers’, we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. There is no escape from the fact that they do, and that they always will, rule mankind, because we constitute a symbolic class of life, and we cannot cease from being so, except by regressing to the animal level.”

“it seems never to have occurred to the ‘behaviourists’ that mathematics and ‘insanity’ are very characteristic forms of human behaviour.”

“That ‘linguists’, ‘psychologists’, ‘logicians’., were, and usually are, very innocent of mathematics, a type of language of the greatest simplicity and perfection, with a clear-cut structure, similar to the structure of the world, Seems to be responsible for this helplessness. Without a study of mathematics, the adjustment of structure seems impossible.”

To learn Non-A should be a requirement in elementary schools.