Stanley Baldwin, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister in 1924, while addressing the congress that same year, emphasised that the preservation of the individuality of the mother tongue is essential to every type of race and if the differences are smoothed out then the great gift is lost out. "Uniformity of languages is a bad thing," he said.
When a child is joining school, private or public, what concerns would a parent have?
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