Iran Bans The Teaching Of English In Its Primary Schools

The Independent: Iran bans English being taught in primary schools

‘This is because the assumption is that, in primary education, the groundwork for the Iranian culture of the students is laid,’ says head of the state-run High Education Council

Iran has banned English from being taught in primary schools after the country’s Supreme Leader said learning the language in the early years paved the way for a Western “cultural invasion”.

A senior education official announced the language had been banned because the Iranian culture of students is established during primary level education.

In Iran, where Persian is the country’s official national language, primary school starts at the age of six and lasts for six years.

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WNU Editor: Students in Iran are going to learn English .... even with this Iranian government ban. I live in the province of Quebec, Canada, and in this province the children of immigrants must enroll their kids into French schools where English is only taught in High School (and not much of it at that). But they are still learning English .... from friends, TV, the internet, etc... to the point where almost all francophone kids and young adults on the island of Montreal can and do speak English.

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