Learning To Write Is Learning To Think.

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

In The Case Of Drama (stage, Movies, Television ), There Appear To Be People In Almost Every Audience Who Never Quite Fully Realize That A Play Is A Set Of Fictional, Symbolic Representations. An Actor Is One Who Symbolizes Other People, Real Or Imagined. [...] Also Some Years Ago It Was Reported That When Edward G. Robinson, Who Used To Play Gangster Roles With Extraordinary Vividness, Visited Chicago, Local Hoodlums Would Telephone Him At His Hotel To Pay Their Professional Respects.

English Is The Key To Full Participation In The Opportunities Of American Life.

You Just Don't Know Anything Unless You Can Write It. Sure You Can Argue Things Out In Your Own Head And Bring Them Out At Parties, But In Order To Argue Anything Thoroughly, You Must Be Able To Put It Down On Paper.

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.