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

America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

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.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

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

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.