[52874] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Horowitz)
Thu Mar 28 22:10:04 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:31:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Horowitz <alanh@mailhost.infi.net>
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <ad7f8eef2c0210048790@[205.199.118.202]>
Certainly, I believe TCM's proposition that there is no "economic need"
for an American to learn a second language.
On the other hand, I haven't seen any demonstration of the "value" of
learning history. Yet, who would argue that ignorance of history is a
good policy to follow?
