Around the world Quote by Fabrice Jaumont

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are…

— Sandra Cisneros

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…

— Richard Rodriguez

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive…

— Luis Fortuno

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

— Tom Tancredo

“Although it permits the use of students’ native language “to clarify key concepts,” this weak form of bilingual instruction has no support in educational…

— James Crawford

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had…

— Emily Rios

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning…

— Luis von Ahn

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the…

— Robert Lepage

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language…

— David Crystal

With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to…

— Bob Dole

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is…

— David Crystal