================================================ Subject: Re: General "Survey 1 of 2" Stuff From: "Mr Mungo" To: Date: Mon 6 Aug 2001 06:21:01 +0100 ================================================ --- Lee Reed wrote: > personally, i think that there should be a > 'foreign language' requirement > from 1st grade on... 1st grade is a little bit early IMO....give 'em a chance to learn the alphabet first! :-) how many of us took two > years of high school spanish, > french, etc...and don't remember a damn bit of > it I remember my french teacher was very ummm perky. (except, of course, how to > swear!LOL) I don't need much more to communicate with the french. it's a proven fact that smaller > children pick languages up more > quickly and easily I moved abroad when I was 12 or so for 4 years, and I picked up the language very easily. I ended up with a grade better than most of my peers! they were very thick! (us 'older' folks have too > many bad habits ingrained!LOL) tell me something i don't know! once, i was in a car with a friend who 'always' drove an automatic car, but this time he was driving a manual car....took him 20 mins before he figured out something was wrong and moved up to 2nd gear.... > instead of focusing on the damn 'proficiency' > tests, let's give our kids an > education which will truly prepare them for the > future... perhaps it's just me, but isn't the future 'unknown'. I would argue that it is. Therefore, how the fuck can you prepare children for the unknown!? many foreign > countries require their student not onlly to > learn a 'foreign' language, but > english as well... true. In Scandinavia, they usually start learning english in year 4, follwed by starting german in yr 6, until they graduate(which is yr 9). Although you don't *have* to take german, it is HIGHLY recommended. that is why their students > are better prepared to work in > today's world economy than ours... amongst various other factors I'm sure Mr Mungo ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp