Socio-linguistic Problems and Potentialities of Education through a Foreign Language

My own first introduction to questions of perception of reality and reflections of social organization in language came through teaching in a secondary school (Junior and Senior) in Uganda in 1955–8. I went to teach Art and Music, but I also taught English. The language of instruction in the school was English, but the youngest pupils had very little. I think a few anecdotes from this period are worth telling.