I am currently enrolled in an educational psychology class. Lately we have been talking about the difference between language effecting our thoughts and our thoughts effecting language. There is a debate concerning if we speak before we think about things or if we think about them before we speak of them. I have not formed an opinion on this yet but I am leaning toward speech before thought. Even if we do not speak about things ourselves, don't we learn as we hear other people talking about them? This in turn trigures thoughts about a certain topic.
After thinking about this for a long time, I had a question. What if we truely do think about things before speaking about them, or if different people have different sequences of thought and speech. Perhaps this is why people learn in different ways. Opinions?
