The Week – Daniel Everett 
Now, after spending most of my adult life in higher education, researching languages, cultures, and cognition, I have become more convinced than ever that nothing teaches us about the world and how to think more effectively better than learning new languages. That is why I advocate for fluency in foreign languages. But for this to happen, language-learning needs to make a comeback as a requirement of both primary and secondary education in the United States. Learning another language benefits each learner in at least three ways — pragmatically, neurologically, and culturally. (more)