Today, more than half of the world's population is bilingual, meaning they can use two languages ​​with equal fluency, and sixty-six percent of children is educated to speak more than one language. At the same time, only 6.3% of children in the United States are raised this way. In an effort to keep up with the times, many school systems around the world practice bilingual education, meaning they teach two languages ​​at the same time. Bilingual education from kindergarten or earlier is not a common practice in the United States, which is very disadvantageous for students. Bilingualism has many positive effects on physical and mental health and also has social and emotional benefits. It has been shown that bilingualism can have positive effects on the mind as early as seven months of age, and some researchers suggest that the mind is better able to absorb a new language between birth and age seven. For this reason, bilingual education should be implemented in U.S. school systems starting in kindergarten or even earlier. Bilingual education is common practice in nine of the world's ten major education systems. In countries like Luxembourg, as many as ninety-nine percent of people are bilingual, and around fifty-six percent of the European Union is bilingual. Over one hundred and fifty major research studies have confirmed the cognitive benefits of bilingualism. Bilingual students have been shown to outperform monolingual students, or students who only speak one language, in areas that aren't even language-related. Studies show that there is a very strong correlation between foreign language and spatial reasoning skills, which means that bilingual people have a......medium of paper......ly. Minds would be strengthened and refined even in the last years of life, and even in areas not related to language such as mathematics. Thanks to bilingualism, memory would increase and diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's could be prevented. More of the brain would be used to its full potential consistently. Children would learn to accept multiple cultures and be more open-minded to change if bilingualism was achieved early in life, and they would be able to better control their emotions on their own. If bilingual education occurred in kindergarten or earlier, children in the United States would be more adequately prepared in many ways to handle the world as it is today and where it is headed. Let's give current and future students one of the greatest gifts possible: bilingualism through bilingual education.