Thursday, September 21, 2006

Michigan to get federal grant for teaching languages!

Well, this is "old news" from April, but I find this idea/article to be interesting:
"Embracing Arabic: State to get language grant" (from the Detroit free Press)

My first reaction was "Great, more Americans studying languages!" But I have to balance that with my skeptical side, thinking that part of the government's aim is to start training kids in Arabic and Chinese so that they are better qualified as adults to be used for intelligence-gathering. You know, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Train them early!

Thoughts?

No comments: