Learner Permit Quotes

They ought to make it a law that you have to get a license, or at least a learner’s permit, before you’re allowed to talk. Until you pass your Talker’s Test, you should have to be a mute.

I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments

Jesus, sometimes I can’t believe how dumb people can be. They ought to make it a law that you have to get a license, or at least a learner’s permit, before you’re allowed to talk. Until you pass your Talker’s Test, you should have to be a mute. It would solve a lot of problems.

Thomas had gotten his learner’s permit a week ago—the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.

I sit on the bench in front of Bell's Market and think about Homer Buckland and about the beautiful girl who leaned over to open his door when he come down that path with the full red gasoline can in his right hand - she looked like a girl of no more than sixteen, a girl on her learner's permit, and her beauty was terrible, but I believe it would no longer kill the man it turned itself on; for a moment her eyes lit on me, I was not killed, although a part of me died at her feet." (from the short story Mrs. Todd's Shortcut)

exposure to language input provides learners with positive evidence (information about what is grammatical in the second language), it fails to give them negative evidence (information about what is not grammatical). Positive evidence is not enough to permit learners to notice the absence in the target language of elements that are present in their interlanguage (and their first language). Thus, more explicit information about what is not grammatical in the second language may be necessary for learners’ continued development. This is discussed in more detail in the section ‘Get it right in the end’.

...be fierce about not permitting roles at all. No more labeling of children's characters. Every child needs to be seen as a multifaceted being--now shy and withdrawn, now boisterous and outgoing; now slow and thoughtful, now swift and purposeful; now stubborn and uncooperative, now flexible. But never the same, always in process, always with the capacity for change and growth. No more labeling of academic ability--'above average' … 'below average'...'mediocre'...'brilliant'...'slow'. Every child needs to be seen as a 'learner' and encouraged to experience the joy of intellectual discovery and the satisfaction of making progress- however fast or slow.

You’re going to drive us home.” She sputters, holding up her hands. “I don’t even have a learner’s permit.” “Oh, well in that case, we better not. I don’t want to break any laws.