Children Quote by George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no…

— George Bernard Shaw

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

— Alan Jay Lerner

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how…

— Alan Jay Lerner

If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.

— William Hull

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

— Julie Burchill

The world doesn't revolve around English.

— HoYeon Jung

There is no question of the government or myself attaching less importance to the use of English.

— Carrie Lam

English parents don't spoil their children.

— Jean Marsh

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

— Andrew Solomon

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

— Abraham Lincoln

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

— Mahatma Gandhi