should students all around the world be thought in their native language?

Answer 1

They should be able to get good education in their mother tongue, yes, but at the same time they should have access to another language. i am still not sure if it should be English, an IAL or Chinese or some weird option.
the problem comes when those kids are not in an area in which their language is not seen as a good thing to be used at school (http://achiral.blogspot.com/2007/04/politically-correctness-times.html is an example of what they think).

Answer 2

This is not really a practical proposition, as students speaking a minority language could then clamour for the teaching of their particular subject in their mother tongue, regardless of whether teaching staff were available, and would claim that they were being discriminated against when this proved impractical. It would impose an enormous financial burden on all institutes of learning. Suppose, for example, that I was a Manx speaker and I insisted that wherever I chose to study the teaching should be in Manx, just for me? It simply wouldn't work!
Moreover, part of the learning process is communication. By learning through what might in fact be a second language, but one which you speak well and which is understood by a wide range of people, you are expanding your horizons far more than if you insisted on remaining in your own little world. Think of the word university! It comes from the same word as "universe" (universitas, the Latin for "the whole, a corporate body", from universus, meaning "whole". It's all about thinking outwardly as well as inwardly.

Answer 3

Well, most people do think in their native language. I don't know how one "thoughts" a person. Perhaps you meant taught.

And, of course students should be taught in their native language. Would it make any sense to teach math to a Chinese student using Hebrew? However, learning a language other than one's mother tongue is very beneficial.

Answer 4

I think students should be taught in their native languages at first, but when it comes to learning a foreign language (particularly English), they should be taught by "total immersion" - speaking nothing but the target language (in this case, English). But if it's not a foreign language course per se, then the students should be taught in their native languages (provided they are in their own country, of course!).

Answer 5

The answer is no. There are far too many languages in the world for each country to offer education in each of them that their people speak. Would you have China offer education in 100 languages, after which no one could speak to each other? Would you have the United States offer education in 200 languages? I would not. Each country should offer education in 1 language, or in perhaps a small number of languages.

Answer 6

I think it depends. I'm irish and was taught in english in school because there are very few areas in ireland that speak irish all the time. we get taught irish(subject-language) in all the schools but for every other subject it would be taught in english.
It is nice to know my native language but it's pointless outside Ireland.
I've been learning Irish since I was 5 years old, now I'm almost 18 and still learning it in school.

so in short no, its good to have classes of your native language but pointless when you want to travel anywhere.

Answer 7

Yes of course they should but they should also be required to learn English,Spanish and German too and be offered other languages they may need later on in life it can only help them not hurt

Answer 8

I believe so , because it enables one to learn their language much more efficiently than otherwise.

Answer 9

Aren't they? Or you are so arrogant to think that everyone in this world thinks in English. You will be surpised that this is not happening

Answer 10

To my opinion, yes!