Best children & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.”

Ifs Needs Children Mother Speak Language Community Work Out Tongue Locals My Children Beneficial Pubs Cafes Welsh Mother Tongue

Author:Bryn Terfel

“I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.”

Should Children Said Sometimes Problem Language Class Society Educated Norm Ideological Brazil Portuguese Lower Class

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”

Children Faces Certain Language Fiction Losing My Children

Author:Ben Marcus

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

“The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.”

Children Next Speak Language Generations Bother Sooner Or Later Next Generation Arbiter

Author:Charlton Laird

“No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.”

Humans Children Two Together Speak Language Human Beings Heard Speech Capable Infant Scratches

Book:WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.”

“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.”

World Children Art Desire Speak Language Natural Genius Draws Art Is Treated Innate

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.”

Ifs Firsts Children Matter Language Differences Lines Levels Bottom Income Our Family Champion Academic Bottom Line Superstar

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.”

Ifs Children Matter Mother Language Mom Conversation Outcomes What Matters Infant Initiate

Author:Po Bronson

“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”

Men Children Hate Speak Language Teach Mouths Spells Despise Englishmen No Respect

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.”

World Wells Children Language Fields England Folks Deeper Wit Spokes Farms New World Drank New England Wit And Wisdom

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.”

Ifs Children Stills Ideas Asks Language Black Holes Ask Me Fascinated Black Hole

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.”

Men Giving Children Reason Found Names Speak Language Sound Fingers Tongue Gestures Recourse

Book:De rerum natura

Source: De rerum natura

“It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.”

World May Children Country Whole School Earth Together Language Taught Scripts Ministers

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.”

Ifs Should Mind Kind Children Soul Play Form Lost Language Born Wonder Spring Weak Sick Wit Lust Conception Pits Transitory Jargon Diseased Babel

Book:The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

Source: The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”

Source: Up the Down Staircase

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