Why learn or teach another language?
No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
~J. R. R. Tolkien
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course if many hundred years has contributed a stone. ~ R. W. Emerson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein