Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

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

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

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

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

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.