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. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
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… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
