Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the value of multilingualism and the respect one should have for those who are learning a new language.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. highlights the idea that speaking broken English is indicative of a person who is making an effort to learn a new language, which is a commendable endeavor. Instead of mocking someone for their imperfect language skills, we should recognize their effort and the knowledge they possess in another language, promoting respect and understanding among different cultures.
In practice
In a classroom setting while discussing language learning, this quote can be used to encourage students.
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so. Spoil your spouse, not your children. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.
I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?
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