Politics Quote by Peter Trudgill

“not focusing on language turns out to be an effective way to teach language in sheltered classrooms, especially the kind of academic language that…

— James Crawford

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

— Harper Lee

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird,…

— June Jordan

“Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were…

— Diane Ravitch

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

— Jay Griffiths

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

“Shorn of unattractive language about "robots" who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized communities must…

— Jonathan Kozol

“adolescent who expresses dissident opinion more or less vocally can end up in a place like that. Some of the children arrive there from…

— Masha Gessen

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out…

— Michael Morpurgo

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene