Quotes About Bilingual Education

#1. Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classroom - the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly.

Richard Rodriguez

#2. We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

Newt Gingrich

#3. He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

Sarah Addison Allen

#4. It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.

Sonia Sotomayor

#5. We learned the value of being vulnerable enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us. That, it turned out, was a blessing to them as well.

Todd Burpo

#6. I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#7. The botanist was a decent man, but Khassan was in love, and thus capable of infinite hate.

Anthony Marra

#8. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes - duct tape.

Rick Riordan

#9. I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

Pablo Neruda

#10. We are not invisible because the world does not see us. We become invisible when we can no longer see ourselves.

Holden Robinson

#11. There are no small sins against a great God

J.I. Packer

#12. I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

Alex Campbell

#13. At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

#14. Make way for the Raven King

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Shirley Hufstedler

#16. Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.

Marisa Miller