Bilingual Education Quotes

“It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.”
― Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World

“Learning another language diminishes prejudice towards those who are different”
― Marisa J Taylor, Happy within / Feliz por dentro: Children's Book Bilingual English Spanish

“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Given our geography, our tolerant culture and the magnetic attraction of our economy, illegals will always be with us. Our first task, therefore, should be abolishing bilingual education everywhere and requiring that our citizenship tests have strict standards for English language and American civics. The cure for excessive immigration is successful assimilation. The way to prevent European-like immigration catastrophes is to turn every immigrant—and most surely his children—into an American.”
― Charles Krauthammer, The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

“The deepest connection you have with someone & their culture, is through learning their language.”
― Marisa J Taylor, Happy within / Feliz por dentro: Children's Book Bilingual English Spanish

“Quoting Page 87: In 1978 a four-year study by the American Institutes for Research, sponsored by the USOE [U.S. Office of Education], concluded that most of the Hispanic students involved [in bilingual/bicultural programs[ were native speakers of English, that those who needed to learn English competence were not in fact acquiring it, that most bilingual programs were aimed at linguistic and cultural maintenance rather than learning English, and that the segregated Hispanic students who were already alienated from school simply remained so.”
― Hugh Davis Graham, Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America

“I have been accused of being a bully. I think a lot of that stems from precisely my resistance to feel like I need to do the emotional labor of making people feel comfortable about what I’m saying. In particular, as a Latino scholar doing work in bilingual education, I’m particularly resistant to the idea that I need to make white people feel comfortable doing work in bilingual education. I put my work out there. I let it speak for itself. I certainly have never targeted anyone individually and personally insulted them, which is what bullying actually is, right?”
― Nelson Flores

“Whenever we talk about social and academic language today, that’s really the legacy that we’ve inherited – a legacy of semilingualism, of suggesting that there’s something illegitimate about the language practices of racialized bilingual students.

(4/10/2020 on Vocal Fries podcast)”
― Nelson Flores

“Culture shapes the language, Language shapes the culture. When you absorb another language, It reshapes your mental atmosphere.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans