How we get better at using words
It can't be said too often: we get better at using words, whether hearing, speaking, reading, or writing, under one condition and only one-when we use those words to say something we want to say, to people we want to say it to, for purposes that are our own.
John Holt via https://kindle.amazon.com/post/3DIRS1AF1KD8Q
Hat tip: Zac Chase, http://twitter.com/#!/MrChase/status/134415331358806017
