No, he literally says: > Don’t make the mistake of arguing that knowing a second language has many benefits. The point is that foreign language instruction in

No, he literally says: > Don’t make the mistake of arguing that knowing a second language has many benefits. The point is that foreign language instruction in schools doesn’t teach a second language. I get your point that other countries manage to teach English. But English has a large amount of utility to non-English speakers. The reverse isn't true for most languages English speakers could learn. I'm decidedly not anti-foreign languages. I can understand some Norwegian and French and am learning Arabic, but it is much less useful for me to know these languages than for a speaker of them to know English.