"JE SUIS
CHARLIE"

+1

Good idea, the teaching of Latin.

One of my Professors at Sydney was a Latinist of repute and he attended a seminar in Paris at which Latin scholars from all over the world were assembled.
They soon discovered that they could not communicate in the spoken word as each country/region had developed differing pronunciations, Catholics speaking 'Church Latin' could get along but often with a bit of difficulty.
They could all write brilliant notes to each other but the upshot was that all speaking was done in French.

On the broadening of learning etc., why not have compulsory Non-Euclidean Geometry in all schools?

English can suffer similar problems, imagine a lad from deepest Somerset talking to a lass from Glasgow if they were not educated in Standard English.

JE SUIS
CHARLIE

+ 2

http://twitter.com/LucilleClerc/status/552961721959473152

Nice though the sentiment be that <<Break one,(and a) thousand will rise>> :)

The cold hard reality is that the birth rate for those who believe in Allahu Akbar and, whoever insults his Prophet ...should be eliminated -- is many times a thousand ...and the borders of France are porous.

Dear Banjo Patterson,

Thank You for your kind words.

And your well reasoned and logical thoughts.

I totally agree with you about Asian Languages.
The ACER link that I gave clearly indicates
that experts do agree that there should be
a full committment to widespread language
studies - not just Asian - that they should be
well-designed and supported, and taught by
well-trained and supported language teachers in
schools. And who knows if every effort is made to
redress the persisting under-performance in
language education then we may succeed where we have
failed in the past. It's worth a try - and as Prof
Joseph Lo Bianco indicates - this effort will be amply
justified

JE SUIS
CHARLIE

+3.