English, Our Common Language, Binds Our Diverse

In A Very Real Sense, People Who Have Read Good Literature Have Lived More Than People Who Cannot Or Will Not Read.

I Believe We Are Being Dishonest With Language Minority Groups If We Tell Them They Can Take Full Part In American Life Without Learning The English Language.

Few People...have Had Much Training In Listening. The Training Of Most Oververbalized Professional Intellectuals Is In The Opposite Direction. Living In A Competitive Culture, Most Of Us Are Most Of The Time Chiefly Concerned With Getting Our Own Views Across, And We Tend To Find Other People's Speeches A Tedious Interruption Of The Flow Of Our Own Ideas.

The Last Thing A Scientist Would Do Is Cling To A Map Because He Inherited It From His Grandfather, Or Because It Was Used By George Washington Or Abraham Lincoln.

If You See In Any Given Situation Only What Everybody Else Can See, You Can Be Said To Be So Much A Representative Of Your Culture That You Are A Victim Of It.