a summary of ted talk-dont insist on english by patricia ryan

Patricia ryan is a language teacher that has been in gulf for over 30 years, she has seen a lot of changes there. She along with her friends was brought to teach English because the government wanted to modernize the country and to empower the citizens through education. The major change that she has seen is, how can english become a massive international bussiness from being a mutually beneficial practice.  it has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth, So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test. The speaker see it as a weird condition, when someone wants to continue a study in U.K or U.S, one must able to speak english even s/he is really genius in scientific computer, but s/he is still rejected just because they don’t have English as guidance. The speaker love having a global language but hate if it is as a barrier for another else.  There are lots and lots of tests of English. And millions and millions of students take these tests every year.but because the test taker are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. So immediately they are being rejected.

Some people might think that, by english, they can give their children the best chance in life.here is  story,  There are two English scientists. They were doing an experiment to do with genetics and the forelimbs and the hind limbs of animals. But they couldn't get the results they wanted. They really didn't know what to do, until along came a German scientist who realized that they were using two words for forelimb and hind limb, whereas genetics does not differentiate and neither does German. So bingo, problem solved. If you can't think a thought, you are stuck. But if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more. When a language dies, we don't know what we lose with that language.

This is an advice from patricia ryan : People who have no light, whether it's physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exams, and we can never know what they know. Let us not keep them and ourselves in the dark. Let us celebrate diversity. Mind your language. Use it to spread great ideas.