Read the quotes given below. Choose the option that might best describe Hamel's viewpoint. (a) Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. (b) Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. (c) A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. (d) The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perception for life.

M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world— the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language as it is as if they had the key to their prison. Then he opened a grammar book and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how well    
I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy.