S. I. Hayakawa Believe Quotations

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.

The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.