'Unlike many politicians and economists who view languages in education as a cost and problem, educators recognize that languages and funds of knowledge.are valuable resources.'
A visibly irked Pasig City lone district Rep. Roman Romulo lectured a resource person who cut him mid-sentence during a hearing a committee hearing on the proposed suspension of the implementation of the use of the mother tongue in teaching Filipino children.
Dr. Ricardo Nolasco (left) and Pasig
“What we need in order for our country to develop is to effectively learn our own language. We will not develop if we merely learn a foreign language prematurely just so we would become the slaves of others."