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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: talk & travel
In-Reply-To: livesey@solntze.engr.sgi.com's message of 18 Feb 1995 23:44:37 GMT
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In article <3i60p5$m7f@fido.asd.sgi.com> livesey@solntze.engr.sgi.com (Jon Livesey) writes:

   a point.    The point is that Esperanto is being boosted by nice
   middle-class pseudo-intellectuals who live in a world where they
   can indulge in pipe-dreams about their hobby language solving
   "problems", but they have no idea, living their sheltered middle 
   class lives, what the problems in US education really are.

Who ever claimed that Esperanto could solve all the problems, or
even just the important ones, in the US educational system?
It has been claimed that teaching Esperanto helps for learning
other languages. This is true for the US just as for any other
country. But this has little to do with the problems of the
US educational system, which, I agree, are far more substantial.

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