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Title: The Place of English Language in Education - Kalvischools


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  • The Place of English Language in Education

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  • Language is a most important factor in general
    education because it is the crux of
    understanding. Throughout, the teaching process
    it is worthwhile to remember that teaching calls
    for a child-centered, honest, and healthy
    approach to language.
  • Again, language is a device for giving and
    receiving emotional responses - a function we in
    school often forget or limit to love for trees
    and flowers or to occasional bursts of
    patriotism.
  • But I am saying, for I believe it intensely, that
    present-day living and understanding of it comes
    first, and that usually we have taken a wasteful
    course by beginning with the past and its
    lessons.

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  • Mental hygiene calls for a wholesome use of
    language. Schools do much to set up the opposite
    attitude. By the very nature of the school, its
    experiences become a standard of sort. Language
    used in school is characterized as good in
    contrast to language which cannot be used in
    school. By our taboo on sex words, on literature
    which deals frankly with life-experiences, and on
    discussion of love and romance, we set up
    inhibitions and false values. Only by discussing
    frankly and unemotionally vital matters can we
    develop individuals who use language adequately
    and without embarrassment.Our people use
    language timidly, haltingly. They fear to speak
    directly, call frankness vulgarity, fear to
    discuss love, beauty, the poetry of life. They
    ban honest words and prefer circumlocutions. The
    language teacher, the teacher of English, carries
    a goodly share of responsibility for the mental
    hygiene of young people, in reality.

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  • As training for independent thinking and clear
    self-expression, how appropriate is it to ask
    children to punctuate bad sentences some
    textbook-maker has written, or to write endless
    papers on topics chosen by a teacher or
    committee?
  • Language is a most important factor in general
    education because it is a vital, intimate way of
    behaving. It is not a textbook, a set of rules,
    or a list of books.

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ThankYou
  • Kalvi International Public School
  • 134, A R Hospital Road,
  • KK Nagar,
  • Madurai 625020
  • Email ID helpdesk_at_kalvigroup.com
  • Website https//kalvischools.com/
  • Ph no 91-9500710004
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