Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.