The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

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.