Educating in additional languages
Description
Teaching people foreign or other national languages.
Claim
Bi- or multi-lingual education gives the mind different structures and intellectual possibilities. Bilingual children realize earlier than monolingual children that there is no intrinsic relationship between the name given to things and the things themselves. A dog is also 'chien' or 'hond'. This separation between sound and meaning is a crucial step in the child's intellectual development.
Counter-claim
A single universal language should be taught.