Sunday, July 07, 2002
No Pleasing Some People
"Even as fundamental a skill as literacy does not necessarily realize its promise. In northern Kenya, for example, tribal youths placed by their families into parochial schools do acquire a modicum of literacy, but in the process also learn to have contempt for their ancestral way of life," Wade Davis, "We Need a Global Declaration of Interdependence.
Davis' complaint has been made often enough by advocates of bilingual education, who complain that when the children of immigrants learn English, they are alienated from their ancestral way of life.
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