Knowledge Of English

(Saad Zubair, Shikarpur)

 The Pakistani students are likely to derive more education from the knowledge of English than from the other languages. In the first place, be thereby gains access to the varied stores of a noble literature. The advantage of being able to read in the original poetry of Milton and Shakespeare, the histories of Gibbon and Maculae, the novels of Scott, Thackeray and dickens and the philosophy of mill, Darwin, and Herbert spencer is incalculable.

This language also gives the key of latest scientific discoveries of the world. Every newly-found marvel of science, even if originally discovered on European continent, is sure to be published with little delay in the pages of English and American works.

For the traveler and the man of business, no language is more useful than English, which is mother tongue of about hundred million people, and is acquired for commercial and literacy purposes for an immense number of foreigners. Indeed the English language is known so widely over the surface of the globe, and is spreading widely and rapidly year by year. That it bids fair to become in the course of time a kind of universal language known and spoken all over the world.

Such are among the general advantages derived from the knowledge of English. But there are, of course, special reasons why Pakistani’s should master the language. As Pakistan was a part of British Empire, English is the official language of Pakistan, and only the very lowest posts in the service of government are open to those who are ignorant of it. English being the language of the law courts, Pakistani barristers and solicitors cannot succeed in the legal profession, unless they are to speak it fluently, the great bulk of the foreign trade of Pakistan being with England, knowledge of English is essential for all clerks in commercial offices and for those who engage in trade on their own account.

Finally, English is becoming in Pakistan the common language of all educated men, whether their vernaculars be Punjabi or Urdu, so that the business of national properties , at which representatives from different parts of Pakistan meet in council, has to be conducted in this language. Moreover cnn has made the whole world global village. America, being super power also uses English language. It will not be wrong to say that at present English is language of whole world.
 

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