Dear Jose, my friend,
I have no quarrel with you for having studied in Portuguese. But I still say
that if you was a born Goan to Goan parents and if your mother tongue was
Konkani and not Portuguese, you had the right to be INSTRUCTED in your
mother tongue in the formative years aka what we call the primary school
where every word that was spoken by the teacher would be understood by you.
I am sorry if you equate economics and salaries and what not to Primary
Education.
As far as I am concerned, Primary Education is the Education of life and
what you are talking about is LEARNING which has a life-time to be
acomplished, like my friend and classmate in college Tony De Sa says "from
womb to tomb"
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Bernado Colaco" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] MoI - After one week of praises comes the
floriano wrote: Go to far Eastern Countries, Western Countries, Latin
American Countries anywheres except Goa. The Hundred year or more ago
concept is still adhered to i.e. teach your children in their
formative years in their mother tongue. Only fools think otherwise.
COMMENT:
My dear Floriano,
I am almost sure that you are right and I am not.
Even so, I'd suggest to you the following:
a: The vast majority of high performing Goans resident in Goa (antes
1961) did their primary and further education in Portuguese.
b: The vast majority of high performing Goans resident out of Goa, but
in India/Pak did (and still do) their primary and further education in
English.
c: The vast majority of high performing 'desi' 'African' 'Asian'
residents of the UK, US and Ireland did and do their primary and
further education in English.
jc
please excuse any inadvertent typo errors.
