The Mote and the Beam

Extract

Teachers of foreign languages in the United States, it may be assumed, are convinced that foreign-language teaching is a good thing. But this conviction is not shared by all the people who do not teach foreign languages. Teachers of other subjects, principals, superintendents, school committees, and the general public do not always see eye to eye with us on this question. Their defective vision, this mote in our brother's eye, is of natural and paramount concern to us as we peer around the edge of our own smallish beam.