Saakashvili: 'Every Schoolchild should Learn English'
TBILISI/GEORGIA – Every schoolchild in Georgia should become "an English speaker" in next four years, as part of "educational revolution," President Saakashvili said on August 15.
Meeting with a group of native English speakers, who volunteered to teach English in the Georgian schools as part of the Education Ministry's program Teach and Learn with Georgia, Saakashvili compared this program with the decision of Georgia's most revered King, David the Builder, to resettle thousands of families of Kipchak tribe from the North Caucasus. The resettlement helped the King to fill his army to unite Georgia nearly 900 years ago.
"Arrival of 10,000 English language teachers in Georgia in next three years is the event of exactly the same scale like the one, when David the Builder resettled 50,000 Kipchaks
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