The Place of English Language in Education - Kalvischools

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• The Place of English Language in Education

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• Language is a most important factor in general
  education because it is the crux of
  understanding. Throughout, the teaching process
  it is worthwhile to remember that teaching calls
  for a child-centered, honest, and healthy
  approach to language.
• Again, language is a device for giving and
  receiving emotional responses - a function we in
  school often forget or limit to love for trees
  and flowers or to occasional bursts of
  patriotism.
• But I am saying, for I believe it intensely, that
  present-day living and understanding of it comes
  first, and that usually we have taken a wasteful
  course by beginning with the past and its
  lessons.

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• Mental hygiene calls for a wholesome use of
  language. Schools do much to set up the opposite
  attitude. By the very nature of the school, its
  experiences become a standard of sort. Language
  used in school is characterized as good in
  contrast to language which cannot be used in
  school. By our taboo on sex words, on literature
  which deals frankly with life-experiences, and on
  discussion of love and romance, we set up
  inhibitions and false values. Only by discussing
  frankly and unemotionally vital matters can we
  develop individuals who use language adequately
  and without embarrassment.Our people use
  language timidly, haltingly. They fear to speak
  directly, call frankness vulgarity, fear to
  discuss love, beauty, the poetry of life. They
  ban honest words and prefer circumlocutions. The
  language teacher, the teacher of English, carries
  a goodly share of responsibility for the mental
  hygiene of young people, in reality.

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• As training for independent thinking and clear
  self-expression, how appropriate is it to ask
  children to punctuate bad sentences some
  textbook-maker has written, or to write endless
  papers on topics chosen by a teacher or
  committee?
• Language is a most important factor in general
  education because it is a vital, intimate way of
  behaving. It is not a textbook, a set of rules,
  or a list of books.

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