A different language is a different vision of life.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
If you do not learn English in this country, you cannot get anywhere. We are in America. We are not in Mexico, we are not in China, we are not in Saudi Arabia - we speak English in this country! And what bilingual education does, is keep them from learning English, so they are doomed to be second-class citizens.
Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.
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