Bilingualism For The Individual Is Fine, But

The Language We Share Is At The Core Of Our Identity As Citizens, And Our Ticket To Full Participation In American Political Life. We Can Speak Any Language We Want At The Dinner Table, But English Is The Language Of Public Discourse, Or The Marketplace And Of The Voting Booth.

Bilingualism For The Individual Is Fine, But Not For A Country.

The Meanings Of Words Are Not In The Words, They Are In Us.

Animals Struggle With Each Other For Food Or For Leadership, But They Do Not, Like Human Beings, Struggle With Each Other For Thatthat Stands For Food Or Leadership: Such Things As Our Paper Symbols Of Wealth (money, Bonds, Titles), Badges Of Rank To Wear On Our Clothes, Or Low-number License Plates, Supposed By Some People To Stand For Social Precedence. For Animals The Relationship In Which One Thing Stands For Something Else Does Not Appear To Exist Except In Very Rudimentary Form.

Learning To Write Is Learning To Think. You Don't Know Anything Clearly Unless You Can State It In Writing.