OpenEuphoria

Re: Languages

• Posted by Falkon <Falkn13 at IBM.NET> Apr 28, 1998
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From:    "Wallace B. Riley"
>When I was in high school, over 50 years ago, I took *two* years of Spanish
>and learned very little of real usefulness, because both courses were only
>a dreary compilation of rules of grammar.

     I took three years and a semester of Spanish, a semester of German, and
a semester of Russian in middle and high school.  And read/heard just enough
Latin, French, and Japanese to recognize them fairly consistently.  And
that's about all I retained of any of them is recognition.  :(
     I'm happy though, that the one middle-school teacher who complained
about the lack of any languages being taught below high-school level, and
volunteered to teach the semester-length classes after school, got a
promotion and permission to teach Latin and Russian.  Even though she did
get stuck in high school and bound by a curriculum that dryed everything out
to grammar rules.

From:    Irv Mullins
>How does that compare with the current state of education?
>(hint: don't bother looking for that state on a map.:)

     Heh.  No kidding.  I think my old school finally upgraded it's
'Computer' class from Apple IIs this year, so it's improving.  Gradually...
Maybe next year they'll get maps.

Falkon,
dodging one off-topic discussion for another.