Show Wrong Method of Teaching Consul Paul Nash of Venice writes Hundreds of welleducated Americans annually pass through Venice and although al-though probably ninetenths of them have had several years of Instruction In a European language not one tenth are capable of speaking a dozen connected words of anything but English Eng-lish Even college graduates fresh from prizewinning in French or Gorman Gor-man aro generally unable to speak either language although capable of writing an excellent thesis on their history philology syntax and literature litera-ture This is the result of teaching French and German In much the same way that Latin and Greek aro taught |