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Mother tongue is losing importance from cities? The mother tongue is the true vehicle of the mother wit. Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. But the mother tongue is one in which a man is born. It is through the vernacular that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in speech. A man’s native speech is almost like his shadow, inseparable from his personality but in last few year mother tongue is losing importance in day by day and after few year I have doubt that very little person may even talk in mother tongue (few area of India specially in city).In these days few person already talk in English at home and also out side. May be it’s a effect of globalization but still others European country are maintaining their own language very well but in India if this thing is going on then few Indian prosperous language will be disappear. So what do you think?
Mother language should be compulsory in primary education?
Just to think easier I have added few lines of our great freedom fighter’s autobiography
Polak and I had often very heated discussion about the desirability or otherwise of giving the children an English education. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They deprive them of the spiritual and social heritage of the nation, and render them to that extent unfit for the service of the country. Having these convictions, I made a point of always talking to my children in Gujarati. Polak never liked it. He thought I was spoiling their future. He contended, with all the vigour and love at his command, that, if children were to learn universal language like English from infancy, they would easily gain considerable advantage over others in the race of life. He failed to convince me.
M.k. Gandhi
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Originally Posted by dhaneshv 
