Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. — 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 Image
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 Image
So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must… — 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 Image
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 Image
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
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