Sunday, September 8, 2013

Language and Education

We're at the border of losing our language. If less than 20% are fluent speakers, you're going to lose your language. We're even less than that now. And once you lose the language, you lose the connection because it's a different way of thinking. What people don't know and what linguists have ascertained is that the indigenous languages of the western hemisphere are the most expressive languages in the world. And the languages become less expressive as you move west. And everyone knows, anyone that knows languages, knows that English is the last language. So if English is the last language and it's the least expressive—which it is—ascertained by linguists of the world, then anything you translate in English is a half truth, at best. At best!
Russell Means (November 10, 1939-October 22, 2012)

Watch the interview hosted by Gabriel of Urantia. 

What he also said about education brainwashing our children is true. RSA can explain it better than I could, though. So here it is.