The reasons for the importance of vernacular education within a language
movement are: (1) vernacular education will instill children with a sense of
pride in their native tongue and culture which counteract the sense of
inferiority long connected with minority languages ( cf. Ethnicity above); the
vernacular language can then be raised to the level of a prestige language
such as for example Manx on the Isle of Man (Gregor, 1980); (2) vernacular
education serves to develop a child's command of the language in an attempt
to make it a viable medium in the modem world; (3) vernacular education
will enable those children living in an area with a linguistic minority, but who
themselves have no command of the minority language, to learn it. This
would facilitate integration into the linguistic community and hopefully
prevent ostracization or language shift.