You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

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.

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

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.

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