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.

McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

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.

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.

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.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.