What have in common philosohpy, learning languages and this engineering degree? No, the answer is not english is a subject.
The act of thinking is directly related with the language you use. You may have a clear experience if you talk more than one language. And also, with how good is you language: the better you language is, the better your thinking is. (Let me explain just one thing: better here stands for something related with complexity not with a moral virtue.)
This issue must be told in classrooms to all teens, ’cause they still keep arguing Why should I study english/catalonian/spanish/latin/greek if I’m in science branch? I don’t need all those languages, I just need to learn maths. By the way, teachers must explain maths are also a language also.
So, there’s a direct relation betwen your language quality and your reasoning quality: If you’re the master of your language then you’re the master of your brain, your thinking process, your thoughs, …
Until here nothing new for a mediocre philosophy student. Now, relation betwen languagues and engineering: Learning languagues and learning engineering both have in common problems solutions. Languagues has rules, also called syntax, grammar, … and elements, also called vocabulary, and practices, also called exercises or programms.
Like a engineering, where we’re taught in rules, for instance programming essentials, in elements, for instance reserved words in a programming language (again, computing programming is also a languague)…
This is what philosophy, learning languagues and engineering they all three have in common. I leave a lot of things to say but I wanna keep myself in essentials questions.
Two late things:
- have a look Language, engineering and philosophy that I read yesterday April 4 and don’t fear of philosophy, mates 🙂
- I my humble opinion there’s a big difference between engineering and languagues: engineering is a technical issue, languague is an art (and this is a very Plato point of view but I can’t get out my own shadow)