The unique brain power of young boys and girls in SW Asia

[American Eagle]

Parochially I want to single out the unique brain power of SW Asian boys and girls, which underscores my firm belief in the need of universal education of all in what you may see as the Muslim world of SW Asia per se.

Example: In Northern Pakistan, for example, in the public schools, boys and girls, separately or together as the case may be in classrooms, learn English, their regional or tribal native language, and usually one or two "European languages" other than and in addition to English.

Likewise these same young boys and girls learn several different alphabets and scripts.

The point of this short comment is that every young person who in some instances comes across to the unaware Westerner as using poor or little written English is in fact "a work in progress."

Much financial sacrifice goes into or has gone into he or she having a computer to use in participating on this and other forums.

In the US, where my wife works in a public library (and uniquely is fluent in four languages and dabbles in two more languages, for a total of six languages) while I struggle along in my "Southern" English and had two years of Spanish in undergraduate university, and three years of "dead Latin" in my Tennessee Public High School...the Library here has numerous public use, for free, computers. The library also offers courses in computer use, a few of which courses my wife teaches.

The same library helps immigrants whose native languages include Spanish, Russian, Chinese, to name a few, offers courses for free, normally at night, but on request day courses, too, in English as a Second Language.

Where either power lines exist or battery powered computer can or do exist and are in use, it is imperataive that all young people, as well as any and all adults who want to improve to start later in life basic communication skills using a computer, have that/those "pull or lift yourself up by your own bootstarp" opportunity.

Frankly, many of our rotten spoiled US boys and girls who have it so easy compared to backward, developing, or regressively oppressed nations or parts of nations should and must have the same basic use of computers educational opportunities. The fact that SW Asian boys and girls have languages, plural, capabilities in more than their native or regional tongue(s) to me shows we are dealing with a mass audience of boys and girls who are by such languages acquired skills way above the norm and deserve the compliment of computer literacy in some or all their languages and alphabets or writing scripts.

This is something that on top of all else with your local libraries, schools, colleges and universities which all, not just some foreign Embassies and Consulates in your various nations can also offer your youth...free, tutored computer use and computer literacy classes.

 

[Kompromat]

@American Eagle

Computer education in Pakistan is now mandatory sir. With information technology expanding in here, the kids get computer skills at a very early age. I touched my first computer at the age of 11, my youngest brother did so at the age of 5.

Languages are a big thing in Pakistan. I myself am fluent in 4 languages and can read and write/converse in a total of 6.


In Pakistan.

• You are born with a mother tongue, i.e Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto, Kashmiri, Brahvi.
• You learn to read and write Arabic BEFORE school, by learning the Quran. ( Now will be a mandatory language )
• You learn the Urdu - our national language at school ( Mandatory )
• You learn English at school ( Mandatory )
• Some schools offer optional, Arabic, Farsi and Mandarin studies too.
  
  So by the time you hit a Pakistani University - you already have 4 languages under your belt.

 

[pak-marine]

more gray matter our kids have

 

[American Eagle]

@American Eagle

Computer education in Pakistan is now mandatory sir. With information technology expanding in here, the kids get computer skills at a very early age. I touched my first computer at the age of 11, my youngest brother did so at the age of 5.

Languages are a big thing in Pakistan. I myself am fluent in 4 languages and can read and write/converse in a total of 6.


In Pakistan.

• You are born with a mother tongue, i.e Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Pashto, Kashmiri, Brahvi.
• You learn to read and write Arabic BEFORE school, by learning the Quran. ( Now will be a mandatory language )
• You learn the Urdu - our national language at school ( Mandatory )
• You learn English at school ( Mandatory )
• Some schools offer optional, Arabic, Farsi and Mandarin studies too.
  
  So by the time you hit a Pakistani University - you already have 4 languages under your belt.

This is good news indeed.

In years past I was corresponded with via e-mail from Swat, the NWFP and the "raw frontier" by parents of children then, the early to mid-2000s wanted more computer education, coupled with languages then taught...your comments sound as if more languages are now taught, which is great!

Keep up the good work.

If a boy or girl chooses German as an elective language that would stand them well to do say a PhD in a German University.

English and "a" foreign language of your reasonable choice work for a PhD generally here in the US.

Cheers and thanks for the info.