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Teaching Good English

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 18, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 51.

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Teaching Good English

The Chicago Times-Herald, referring to the German emperor's decree making English a study in the German schools, remarks: “We hope it will be better English than they teach in some of our colleges.” Yes, and it is safe to say that it will be. Very few of the teachers in the colleges in the United States ever learned good English, while they were students, their time being largely spent on Greek and Latin, which they do not learn to speak, and never expect to learn to speak; and having never learned good English, how can they teach it? There is no living language so rich, so strong, so precise, as is the English—good English, English rightly used.