Point of view toward learning English by Patricia Ryan is how teaching English has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to becoming a massive international business that it is today. The best education is to be found in the universities of the U.K. and the U.S. So people want to give their children the best chance in life. And to do that, they need a Western education. And everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test. In the test, you pay for expenses so much. There are lots of tests of English. And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. But they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. So immediately, we're rejecting them. In her opinion, it should not be used in the English language as a barrier to learning. She is not against teaching English, all you English teachers out there. But she is against using it as a barrier. The giants upon whose shoulders today's intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didn't have to pass an English test. So People who have no light, whether it's physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exams, and we can never know what they know. Let us not keep them and ourselves in the dark. Let us celebrate diversity. Mind your language. Use it to spread great ideas.