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TEDxSantaCatalinaSchool

November 2017

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The Importance of Being Bilingual

The benefits of bilingual education are enormous. Local dual-immersion programs help develop more empathetic citizens and improve the world. Bilingual education allows communities to produce citizens who can leverage language as the tool to transcend linguistic and cultural barriers. Bilingual education also offers great cognitive benefits the earlier it is begun.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSantaCatalinaSchool, an independent event.

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The benefits of bilingual education are enormous. Local dual-immersion programs help develop more empathetic citizens and improve the world. Bilingual education allows communities to produce citizens who can leverage language as the tool to transcend linguistic and cultural barriers. Bilingual education also offers great cognitive benefits the earlier it is begun.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSantaCatalinaSchool, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

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