I. Hayakawa
I. Hayakawa
writing thinking states
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
life book reading
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
littles chance individual
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
children school patriotic
Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.
race color america
America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.