English Program back in the 1950's

If learn a new language is difficult, the task to teach it is even more complicated. This issue is present in the chapter 7 of Down on the Island by Jim Cooper.  By the economical and political changes that where passing at that time in the island affected enormously the educational system. It’s why the English language became the second language in the decade of 1950, and most of people had the interest to learn it. Cooper, talks about how challenging was to teach this a second language to the people of Puerto Rico.

            Many experiences like the students didn’t care about learning this language was the major issue for Jim cooper, which was an English Professor from Minneapolis in a college in Mayagüez during the 1950's. One of the biggest problems that were facing Cooper was that the majority didn’t know the language, and most of the students have the inspiration or motivation to learn this new language. And this probably was passing with the non-helping from other teachers. Many of this teachers was meant to follow the educational system without the most important interest that a teacher had to have, imparting knowledge to their students, taking care about their studies and making them loving what they were learning.

            Many decades has been pass, but the same issue persists. Many teachers doesn’t care about their students, some care about the money they are getting, some others, a little population of them, still care about imparting the knowledge and care about their futures. Like Cooper said: “There are other professors who really want to motivate their students and teach the way that they can improve and become better intellectual people”.