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Report of the Chairman of the Commission on Trends in Education, Modern Language Association of America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Henry Grattan Doyle*
Affiliation:
The George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

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Copyright © The Modern Language Association of America, 1946

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I refer to the substitution of “General Language,” as proposed in What the High Schools Ought to Teach, and similar efforts to teach “language” without teaching languages. This, by the way, was one of Hitler's ideas. (Cf. his remarks on the teaching of French in Mein Kampf.)