Why your school should teach Mandarin, and why students should learn it

Matthew Arnold wanted teachers to teach “the best that has been thought and said”. But with a monolingual inward-looking mindset, it would be easy to forget that “the best that has been thought and said” isn’t restricted to the English language.

Read my article for Teach Secondary here on why learning Mandarin is about so much more than preparing students for an uncertain jobs market.