• Brilliant, brilliant paper that was. The use of references in between made the paper very clear.
• The questions towards the end also gave me a reason to joggle my mind.
• The questions that stood out for me were:

ü  Should Christians insist that initial education of all be in their mother tongue?

ANSWER: If I ever had a chance to enforce that as a rule, I will say an emphatic YES to that. I am from one of the ‘ethne’ that is not considered the major tribes in Nigeria and to worsen matters after tossing the tribe from one state to another within the country, we are finally in a state where there are quite a number of other languages spoken and we can barely understand each other and my tribe is considered one of the least, there are times am asked where am from and even indigenes of my state have never heard of my tribe. What makes it worse is that quite a number of people in my tribe have been exposed to Western education and have made their niche and barely speak the language to us. The generation to which I belong to can barely carry out a meaningful conversation without mixing it with English and then quite a number of us are marrying out to other larger ethnic groups and the big issue that bothers me is what do I pass on to my children that I can call MY CULTURE.

If my language was taught me from the moment I stepped into planet earth, it probably would have paid off. It could have being fostered by having the bible being read to me during devotion times in my local dialect (which my tribe has the privilege of) as a child, I probably would know more now.

I sincerely think that a child’s initial contact with education should be in his/her mother tongue, taught by parents or grand parents