EDUCATION . . . An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.English is the linguistic engine that drives the global economy. If you look at the most important communications and transportation innnovations in the last 150 years, nearly all of them were invented by English speakers, so their documentation was in English. The others were either invented by people working in English-speaking countries or were later widely disseminated by English-speaking innovators. Dauguerre invented photography, but Eastman made it portable and available to the masses. Benz invented the internal combustion engine, but Ford mass produced it and made it available to the masses. English has been the sole linguistic engine driving this process. Therefore, in order to truly participate in globalization and the global economy, English is absolutely critical. Countries such as Hungary and Ukraine have recognized this fact and made English a compulsory subject in primary education.
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