High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Educating Eve: The `Language Instinct` Debate is a book by Geoffrey Sampson, providing arguments against Noam Chomsky`s theory of a human instinct for (first) language acquisition. Sampson explains the original title of the book as a deliberate allusion to Educating Rita (1980), and uses the plot of that play to illustrate his argument. The Language Instinct (1994) is a book that presents the linguistic theories of Chomsky and others to a general audience, authored by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker to admit non-specialist readers to the considerations.