Remarks of Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, Foreign Language Instruction in American Schools
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OCR Page 1 of 17Recording made on 3/5/53
for Educational Recording Services
University of Southern Calif., Los Ang.
FORZION LANGUAGK INSTRUCTION IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS
By Barl James Neüreth
U. S. Commissioner of Mestion
At a recent meeting held in the United States office of Education
a
group of representative citisens, both educators and laymen, recognised the
need for more and better language instruction in our Anerican school system.
a knowledge of
They believed that/foreign langusige would contribute greatly
to
international understanding among the free peoples of the world.
A
similar attitude prevails among foreign diplomats
who believe that much could be accomplished by this means toward improving
understanding be tween the United States and other nations of the world.
But many of our countrymen, and unhappily som othere who have had
considerable schooling, when confronted with the fact that fou of our citisons
can use a forming tongue ask, *What difference does it make? Another common
response is, "If it is necessary for non-English speaking people to commisste
with us, let 'em learn English." More chauvinistic persons even say, "If we
are the most yoverful Mation on earth, and destined for world leadership, then
certainly English ought to become the language of mankind--so why
should we learn other languages?" A response once more reasonable, but one
now based on a false premise is, "woll the Dutch, the French, and other
Europeans need to learn languages because they live so near other countries
with which they have close cormescial, diplomatic, and social relations.
Likewise the Copptians and other Middle Fasterners are at cultural and com
mercial croseroads of the world where the knowledge of several languages is
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