Friday, March 13, 2009
A Note on Education
Why are kids not being taught a language in schools, starting at kindergarten? Why is it only a requirement for high school students? Studies clearly show that the ability to learn a second language significantly declines with age. Also it would be a tool to introduce more international awareness to kids, by which I mean schools should also emphasize the importance of understanding different cultures and also the importance of international relations. I am having a hard time with words so if that didn't make sense I apologize.
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As far as learning another language, is concerned, can I put in a word for the global language, Esperanto?
ReplyDeleteAlthough Esperanto is a living language, it helps language learning as well.
Five British schools have introduced Esperanto in order to test its propaedeutic values. The pilot project is being monitored by the University of Manchester and the initial encouraging results can be seen at http://www.springboard2languages.org/Summary%20of%20evaluation,%20S2L%20Phase%201.pdf
You might also like to see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
Confirmation can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
Wow, thanks for the information. I hope this is just the beginning of a trend in schools.
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