1. The History of Bilingual Education in America
... newcomers speak. Benjamin Franklin had the same fears in 1753. Robert King quotes Franklin as having said: Those [Germans] who come hither are generally the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own nation they will soon so out number us that all the advantages we have will not, in My Opinion, be able to preserve our language, and even out government ... will become precarious. Considerably later, Theodore Roosevelt echoed Franklin's views: We have room but for one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of A...
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