Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 4, 2017 6:42:55 GMT 12
Rotorua Daily Post 4/2/17
DEAD LANGUAGE
As a child at school in Wales, I was taught Welsh, a "dying language" they said. Living in Cornwall they were trying to keep -Cornish" alive. At college we were taught Latin, Greek and French. and I learned to speak 200 year-old French in Quebec. Great!
I could have spent much of that time learning something useful. Children need to learn to use English properly, the lack of proper teaching of this useful language is evident from looking at Facebook!
Mathematics should be taught properly. If computerised tills in supermarkets stopped working, the supermarkets would have to close their doors— none of the till girls can add or subtract sufficiently well to work without a calculator.
Boys could learn useful skills — carpentry, mechanics, etc. Girls, how to cook.
Face it, Maori is a "dead" language, if people want to learn it let them — don't make them.
JIM ADAMS
Rotorua
DEAD LANGUAGE
As a child at school in Wales, I was taught Welsh, a "dying language" they said. Living in Cornwall they were trying to keep -Cornish" alive. At college we were taught Latin, Greek and French. and I learned to speak 200 year-old French in Quebec. Great!
I could have spent much of that time learning something useful. Children need to learn to use English properly, the lack of proper teaching of this useful language is evident from looking at Facebook!
Mathematics should be taught properly. If computerised tills in supermarkets stopped working, the supermarkets would have to close their doors— none of the till girls can add or subtract sufficiently well to work without a calculator.
Boys could learn useful skills — carpentry, mechanics, etc. Girls, how to cook.
Face it, Maori is a "dead" language, if people want to learn it let them — don't make them.
JIM ADAMS
Rotorua