A different language is a different vision of life.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.
I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.
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