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In a weak sense, it should be indisputable that signs are educators. This is the sense in which one can say that we learn from signs, whether from words or numbers, drawings or pictures, gestures or sense data conveyed by “our great teacher Experience,” as C. S. Peirce (1839–1914) calls her (CP 5.51, 1903).
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Nöth, W. (2014). Signs as Educators. In: Semetsky, I., Stables, A. (eds) Pedagogy and Edusemiotics. Educational Futures Rethinking Theory and Practice , vol 62. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-857-2_3
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