Reply #132: Non-linguistic symbolic systems should also be emphasized

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Logic, mathematics, chemical structures, computer languages, maps, graphs and charts of many diffrent types, data structures, etc. are used to communicate and store much of the world's knowlege.

Natural languages, such as English and Spanish, are not very useful for many types of information. For example, you could describe the human genome in English, and it would fit in a few library stacks, but it would be completely useless in that form.

Teaching these other symbolic systems should be a priority.