Children Quote by Richard Rodriguez

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

“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

“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

“In my opinion, dual language education is a great public good that ought to be developed everywhere, as it can positively transform a child,…

— Fabrice Jaumont

My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages - French to our father and English to our mother. But when we…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

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

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

My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of us spoke…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English…

— Tupac Shakur

In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it…

— Richard Rodriguez

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

“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