When Jean Piaget wrote that the purpose of education is to make people do new things and not just repeat what others have done, it seemed to me that the basis of that educability is an expansive state of mind, unfettered by conditioning and as free as a bird to fly wherever it wants. It also meant, to me, that if we think along rails that are already defined, then we cannot surf the web of our creativity. One constraint appeared to me to be words and language that condition how we think. We have been asked whether we think in English or in some other language. I sometimes think in English and translate that in my mind in to Sinhala before I write something in Sinhala. But if the syntax is fixed by the rules of language and by the structure and meanings of words, then how can I think freely in a given language?