Amidst vast and intense social and economic dislocations and budget crises we agonize over ways to improve our education base-to ferret out deficiencies and bring it into step with the needs of the times (a strategy, furthermore, to check the further decline of society). Educational philosophies are under close scrutiny, as also the bare nuts and bolts. We suggest that these analyses go just a bit deeper than we are in the habit of doing on such matters, more in the manner of an engineering analysis. Something akin to a time and motion study is suggested, and in this vein a profound consideration of language itself as the lowest base of communication-and of education. How do the gross irregularities of language impact the learning process? In what ways and to what extent could a scientifically designed language aid the process? A close look at Esperanto is offered. It is the one such language that has stood the test of time, in continuous and extensive use by a worldwide speaking, reading, and writing community.
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