English

Is English the most important language in the world? Now days many countries take English like the most important tool for the industrial world, for international’s job. It’s true that the United States is one of the most important world powers but it’s also true that is not the only one, so we shouldn’t take English like the most important languages in the world we should take it as one more of many existing languages on the world.

The education of this days educate not for a personal growth, it educate students to go out to the working world, so they can generate money for the state and for the country. So most schools and universities of Chile give greater importance to subjects like Math, Science, and English. We can see this in the changes in the school curriculum, where the hours of Math and Language increased. In the universities, like this one, make the English subject an elementary subject for all the careers that the university taught.

Is important to remember that the education is for a personal growth too and not only for getting a job when we get graduated, so I think that indigenous languages are so important like English. If we live here in Chile we should now languages like Mapudungun. But that kind of languages are not elementary subjects like English if you wanted to know an indigenous language you have to take an elective subject. And I think the same happens in others countries they completely obviate their indigenous, so they obviate their language too.

In the working world are others languages that are so important like English like the German or the mandarin Chinese, for naming a few. But those languages are not taught in schools, except for schools from the countries like the German school. And again if you wanted to learn them you need to hire a personal teacher.

At last I would like to say that for me the education its means more than a tool to get to have a job someday, some of us study for the pleasure of increase our knowledge so learning German, French and indigenous languages have the same importance that learning English because they can opening the same or more windows for the future.