This would be a better reason to discourage the rest of the world from learning English, a language whose native speakers often use familiarity with its laughably bad orthography as a proxy for assessing intelligence, and also a language which unlike Mandarin has seen few serious attempts at reform (not only because of lack of centralised bodies, but also because English linguistic prescriptivists have generally preferred inventing tendentious grammatical style rules to classify "good writing" over cutting the bits which might confuse people).

On the other hand, English is quite a useful language to be able to speak, much like Mandarin.