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The article discusses bilingual education in the U.S. The disconcerting strength gathered by separatism in Canada contains a relevant lesson for the U.S. and its approach to bilingual education. No question can be aroused related to the linguistic division between French-and English-speaking Canadians, who have severely intensified their other differences. Political splinter groups within the Spanish-speaking community, and educators, are misinterpreting the goals of bilingual education in New York as a means of creating a Spanish-speaking power base. The proper use of bilingual teaching as a pedagogically sound means of easing ways of students toward full mastery of English and of making possible effective participation in the general business of learning from the very moment a non-English-speaking youngster enters school is encouraged. The purpose of such instruction must be to create English-speaking Americans with the least possible delay.