Children Quote by John Whitehead

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

— William Bennett

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

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the…

— Michael Gove

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the…

— Theresa May

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

“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

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

I have already taken English lessons in the past because my sister has lived in England for several years and her husband is English.

— Edouard Mendy

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an…

— Jane Seymour

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in…

— Michael Gove

“If, redesigning our education system from scratch, it was suggested that we should attempt to teach Swahili to children but carry out those lessons…

— Frank Chalk