Multilingualism, Mission: Impossible (XV)

In ‘How Our Memory Is Built?’ we have talked the value of symbols, with more frequently repeating, a group of symbols would be more valuable for memory. Comparing with the number of Rome and Arabic, it is easy understand, that Arabic number just ten digits and it can represent endless numbers. While the Rome number was represented by letters in capital, every five of them had to change symbols, it limited the usage of Roman counting system and hard to remember.

Today, the Arabic number survives by reason, while rarely someone uses the Roman numeral system. The multilingualism doing something worse than that, they don’t repeat any symbol even the same meaning. They orchestrated a publicity campaign that the human’s ability of learning is unlimited while they can’t learn mathematics themselves. As if all the job of painstaking learning is for others, they don’t need think about it. They expects selling their handful language symbols permanently. They want everyone life time learning but themselves life time teaching. It just like a Chinese Philosopher said: 人之患在好为人师the biggest problem of human being is that they always expect teaching others.

Anyone over 30 could study by self, they don’t need others to teach them, even they want learn something, it would be about to improve his own thinking style. The internet class room is good enough to satisfy everyone’s curiosity.