Dear Editor
Dear Editor Yankel and Jung It was a real pleasure to read Thomas J. Cottle's "Impoverishing the Poor," (NL, February 26). In conducting his research on the elderly Jewish poor, Cottle tells us he...
...New York City Ben Yacoda Dean Valentine replies: Nobody...
...Knowledge proceeds from an ideal abstract average derived from the statistical methods...
...Ethnic leaders demanding bi-lingualism do not represent their people, just their own desire for patronage...
...To adjust sooner, they take extra, special English classes...
...My wife helps immigrant students learn English as well as Spanish, in her own classes...
...NL, March 12), Dean Valentine regrets that "Charles Repole is no Eddie Kantor...
...Moreover, the program tends to restrict children to their native tongues years longer than necessary...
...I would say that Mr...
...When tests were to be given for entry to the bilingual courses, many students and their families protested against it...
...In conducting his research on the elderly Jewish poor, Cottle tells us he tries "to inaugurate these conversations...
...Other immigrant groups have proved they could learn English and other subjects in English without bilingual classes...
...Well, but who is...
...The task of understanding, according to Jung, can only be approached with a free and open mind—a mind unburdened with presuppositions...
...That's over a third of the entire Pentagon budget for 1980, and $20 billion more than (he figure set for the budget deficit...
...One is reminded that C. G. Jung, in his book The Undiscovered Self, distinguished between knowledge and understanding...
...A recent issue of Scientific American showed how the United States and its allies could get a much belter defense than the one now provided by our military establishment, and at the same lime save $50 billion dollars...
...She finds that most teenagers learn basic English in only six months, and practically catch up to the natives within a year...
...Cottle's piece represents that fine work that Yankel would long to keep—if he had only a bit more living space...
...Correction In Robert Greskovic's "Baryshnikov Meets Balanchine" (NL, March 12), The Four Seasons ballet was inadvertently listed as having a role created expressly for Edward Villela...
...And that is a disservice...
...with few preconceptions or hypotheses...
...The crusade continues even after the program fails...
...Bronxvilie, N. Y. Melvin L. Rogers Bilingual Crusade Bilingual education—defended by Richard J. Margolis ("Unmailed Memos," NL, March 12) —typifies recent educational programs: A poorly tested and even illogical idea becomes a moral crusade...
...we as readers now know something about the mind, emotions, needs, and longings of an individual being...
...What I meant to say was: "Charles Re-pole is no Eddie Cantor...
...understanding views reality in its particularity, in its irregularity...
...New York City C. Woods Identity Problem In his review of Whoopee...
...Bronx, N. Y. Richard H. Shllman Wasted Money Re Robert Lekachman's article on the Carter budget ("Carter's Dangerous Budget Act," NL, February 12): If the President really wanted to fight inflation and hold down spending, one of the best places to start would be the Pentagon...
...The composer of the score was, further, identified as Vivaldi, when Verdi is correct...
...The rest expected to learn English rapidly in the conventional way...
...A number of them were born here and were indignant about being suspected of illiteracy in English simply because of their Spanish surnames...
...In their case, several factors operate...
...Cottle has listened to and has heard Yankel Ranter...
...In a political atmosphere, bilingual teaching jobs are being improvised for people unqualified in at least one of the languages...
...propagators then demand its hasty, large-scale installation, on pain of calling hesitators racists and of withholding Federal aid...
...For 14 years, my wife has been teaching Spanish in a high school that draws immigrants...
...Margolis is not up to par in attributing the alienation of Cherokees and Chicanos to the lack of bilingual education...
Vol. 62 • April 1979 • No. 8
