Teaching English
The PCP article by Chris Austin (3 Oct) is wonderful and it fills me with elation that others in the world do care about the common people of Bangladesh. The learning of English and its secrets as exposed by him and the other practical proposals of help will no doubt advance this most worthwhile objective for the betterment of Bangladesh and its technical manpower, as it has done for China and other countries in the region.
From my own experience of childhood I remember English as a subject which most of us approached with trepidation. There was never any love for the subject as was, say, for Bengali poets and poetry or the Bengali literature of the day including the “Dashyu Mohan” series of adventures. English was a subject which needed to be learnt only for passing the examination, and there I think lies the crux of the matter.
Teachers and guardians must inculcate the beauty, efficacy and rewards of learning a foreign language to the students and allocate proper hours and machinery and trained personnel for this purpose.
Knowing more than one language gives a better IQ and understanding of the world we live in.
Poet Rabindranath Tagore said somewhere which I can only paraphrase, “If one cannot write good English, one cannot write good Bengali either!”
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