HUMA 17000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Social Skills, Machine Translation, Martha Nussbaum
15 Aug 2016
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By benefits we mean: acquisition of useful knowledge, mastering a useful skill, cognitive benefits that have to do with life-long learning, social skills, citizenship. If it were possible for a child to live in two languages, at once equally well, so much the worse. His intellectual and spiritual growth would not thereby be doubled, but halved. Unity of mind and character would have great difficulty in asserting itself in such circumstances. (laurie, 1890: 15, lectures on language, and linguistic methods in school) While there is no gainsaying the insights that come from mastering a language, it will over time become less essential in doing business in asia, treating patients in africa or helping resolve conflicts in the middle east. Lawrence h. summers (former president of harvard, and former secretary of the treasury) The idea of liberal education is more important than ever in our interdependent world.
