Weirdest thing I remember about learning languages at school
was how keen the textbooks were to make the country you were learning about seem completely atomised and boring. They presented the reward for years of learning as access to a sanitised suburb with no history or culture
was how keen the textbooks were to make the country you were learning about seem completely atomised and boring. They presented the reward for years of learning as access to a sanitised suburb with no history or culture
Maybe that's helpful and too much difference will scare off the median kid from learning anything. But then what could possibly be the point given we have sufficient access to deracinated blandness as it is?
Everyone has their own "fix society with schools" thing that doesn't work but it is really noticeable that kids at the more comfortable end of society get exposed to so much more of the world than their mainstream counterparts, and it seems to benefit them a lot
The world is enormous and varied, there are many ways to live a successful life and the more of it you see the more likely it is that you spot a place for yourself
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