Behinds Quote by Sandra Cisneros

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

— 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

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

“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

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

I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish…

— W. S. Merwin

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

— Sandra Cisneros

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching…

— David Crystal

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

“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

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

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further…

— John Whitehead