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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 11 2020, @04:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the intelligence!=wisdom dept.

The Conversation:

The love of all things English begins at a young age in non-English-speaking countries, promoted by pop culture, Hollywood movies, fast-food brands, sports events and TV shows.

Later, with English skills and international education qualifications from high school, the path is laid to prestigious international universities in the English-speaking world and employment opportunities at home and abroad.

But those opportunities aren't distributed equally across socioeconomic groups. Global education in English is largely reserved for middle-class students.

This is creating a divide between those inside the global English proficiency ecosystem and those relegated to parts of the education system where such opportunities don't exist.

[...] It's unfortunate so many schools view an English-speaking model as the gold standard and overlook their own local or regional wisdoms. We need to remember that encouraging young people to join a privileged English-speaking élite educated in foreign universities is only one of many possible educational options.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by NateMich on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:24AM (1 child)

    by NateMich (6662) on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:24AM (#1034754)

    That's nice, but like everything else in life, we chose the winner or loser based on things other than what is the most elegant or the most logical.

    It's just how it is.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:18PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday August 11 2020, @05:18PM (#1035022) Journal

    "Better" is just an opinion, anyway. "Different" would be a better descriptor.

    The Oksapmin have a base 27 counting system, for example [mentalfloss.com]

    If the correct answer to a random question has a base 27 root you're a lot more likely to spot that pattern in a base 27 counting system. And, if the goal is to discover as much stuff as possible then having a person familiar with that base 27 system is probably going to give some unique insight compared to the rest of us base 10 folk.