Famous quotes containing the words language and/or modern:
“Our goal as a parent is to give life to our childrens learningto instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-disciplinean ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a childs learning and leave a childs dignity intact cannot be called disciplineit is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.”
—Barbara Coloroso (20th century)
“Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)