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29 Sep, 32 tweets, 11 min read
“Your kids” may grow up speaking English at home, have an environment to learn.

Most of these children won’t. They will sit uncomprehending in class, not understand math or language, won’t be in any position to compete with China.

How to destroy talent and civilization #101.
This is what will happen with this children @harshmadhusudan.

It is a formula to destroy the country and civilization. No major country has succeeded by converting the entire population to a foreign language. India won’t either.
The little bits of English they pick up won’t let them think or speak fluently. Those who win Nobel Prizes learn in primary in their mother tongue.

Of course, if Indians” highest aim is to be (bad) coolies, this may work. Till chatbots written by Chinese programmers replace them
How is State turning schools to English-medium "parents deciding"? How is the State forcing the Supreme Court, most High Courts, IIM's, IITs, AIIMS being in English "parents deciding"? The colonial state imposes English, leaving parents with little choice.
These are such tired arguments. Read a book. Here's one. Indian does not need one language, less than 5% of people migrate out of the State they are born in.

Question is, can a child in Tamil Nadu decide to be a doctor using Tamil, serve her village?

grpr.in/emm
This one chart destroys argument that "examples of Japan, France, Germany, don't work."

Migration patterns in India are similar to all of Europe. Child in every state can learn in their language to the highest level. Don't need to force medium-change.

State forces English, fails at Indian language ecosystem, ensures elite institutions are in English, as any colonial state does.

It creates an apartheid system. Naturally parents/children have no choice in it. Then they use the excuse "parents want it."

Padma ji, if these people were serious about levelling playing field they'd provide high quality higher education in mother tongues.

Those children will move ahead of English-medium ones, tables will turn.

This is what the bureaucracy doesn't want.

Absolutely, why not. Every IIT can have a stream with an option of state language. Why not actually let students choose instead of forcing one language on them.

Listen to the difficulties of actual students, even those who have made it to IITs. We are literally destroying talent and culture.

1. Only 4% of Indians migrate out of state
2. The language of learning does not have to be the same as communication language.
3. When you move, you can learn a language to communicate, but concepts are best learnt in MT.

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Funny, why not do referendums on other issues, like whether the State under YSR should be managing Hindu temples?

After the colonial state has destroyed opportunities in #IndianLanguages, it asks parents what language they want children to study in. 😆

English-medium is the *reason* for not finding jobs. When I hire an engineer, I want to test their understanding of programming, couldn't care less for their English.

Many engineers coming out of English-medium are incompetent and unemployable.

Lol, most customers in India want English? Have you checked the % of people who listen to English channels on TV vs Indian languages?

Only in India there is a madness of a waiter speaking in English to a customer, when neither of them are good at it.

The maids have no choice but to adapt to #EnglishApartheid fostered by the govt policies. Govt only allows English-medium for Engineering/Medical/MBA.

But intellectuals with knowledge of the world need to suggest better policies, not think like maids.

Was not intending to be offensive, towards you or maids.🙏

But people who are struggling to survive, do not have the knowledge or resources to change bad govt policy.

We do. Mother tongue education at the highest level will lift millions out of poverty.

Let us be clear:

1—"English-medium" education is not a "global" need. All major globally successful countries largely teach in mother tongue, not English.

2—Once we are clear about (1), how to tackle the issue of many Indian languages can be discussed.

Who is saying one professor must teach in 10 languages? Let the professor teach in a language most comfortable to them. Let the students study in the language most comfortable to them. We have enough people, and institutes, for this to be possible.

Please see one of the most celebrated Science professors in India, Prof H C Verma, speak about this.

I hired programmers in Microsoft US from Russia. Some didn't speak any English (I used an interpreter). Great techies and hires. Over time, picked up functional English as needed .

Is forcing 1.3 billion people to learn in a foreign language "practical"?
What language does programming happen in, do tell.
😀
Studies across the world and India show children learn best in mother tongue *medium*, and this develops the brain best.

Try sending your kids to Chinese-medium and see how "easy" it is. Crazy to teach *subjects* in a language that children don't know.

Let's solve the 96% problem first. You want hold 96% hostage to the 4%?

Why is it that you don't want a child in a village in Tamil Nadu to learn to be a doctor using Tamil, as a child in a Japanese village can in Japanese (and go to win a Nobel)?

People are responding to the policies of the colonial state. Yes, in the linguistic apartheid state they don't see any options. I am speaking of dismantling the apartheid state which has been holding India back for decades.

Also I wouldn't put much credence to the sarkari Andhra survey by a govt which had pre-decided the answer. For other motives, including that it helps facilitate conversion.
You are mixing up issues.

1. Firstly English-medium is not a "global necessity." Most of the developed world does not use English-medium.

2. Children learn best in their own language.

3. How best to maximize india's talent, given its diversity.

"Global market" needs English-medium? 😆😆 Someone forget to tell the Chinese they need to switch to English-medium since they are so lagging behind India in globalization.

India's English delusion is due to Indian State policies, not "global" needs.

Fanaticism is sticking to a claim despite all evidence. You keep claiming globalization needs English. I say it does not, give you examples.

Then you switch to "India has many languages." Lol, how does that prove "globalization needs English"?

Indeed, it is like a brainwashed delusion that has been drilled into us.

Now it is like oxygen for some. You say, India does not need English-medium and they start thrashing about like a fish out of water. 😏

How does the Swedish client talk to you? They don't study in English-medium. But wow, they can talk to you. 😆

Yes, because their "belief" in English is not scientific. It is not based on knowledge but on ignorance of how the world works and the brainwashing and bad policies of the Indian State.

That's why I call it a "myth." अंग्रेज़ी माध्यम का भ्रमजाल।

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It is especially bred in that CIA-originated “South Asian Studies” departments. They have also mastered the use of sepoys.
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