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Friday, January 06, 2006

The strategic language initiative 

By TigerHawk at 1/06/2006 09:06:00 AM
This strikes me as a very good idea, but four years later than it should have been. Heck, eight years later than it should have been.

Late is better than never, though.

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4 Comments:

By Blogger Charlottesvillain, at Fri Jan 06, 11:45:00 AM:

I agree, although I hope the curriculum is developed further by professors Smith and Wesson :)  

By Anonymous Anonymous, at Fri Jan 06, 03:22:00 PM:

You have to send students overseas if you want them to learn to speak another language. Trying to teach a language in a class room (at the HS level) is horrible inefficient, and in the end, ineffective.  

By Blogger Lanky_Bastard, at Fri Jan 06, 04:11:00 PM:

I agree a straegic plan is overdue. I don't like the sound of this bill though. I worry it will be horridly mismanaged and most of the money will go into languages with no strategic value, becoming yet another federal handout.

A simpler method would be to just offer full-ride scholarships to foreign universities in exchange for some form of service (3 years of unspecified government employment). You can't live in another counrty for 4 years without picking up some language and culture.  

By Blogger Papa Ray, at Fri Jan 06, 05:31:00 PM:

You think our universitys' are liberal, europe's make ours look conservative. Send them to Egypt, let them learn a language and let them see how terrible Islam is. How about Iraq?

Na, better to send them to Israel, they can learn three or four languages there.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA  

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