EDUCATION
Sir.—Accepted ideas die hard. One of these is that post-primary education should be given to all. Does it occur to educationists that' not all children leaving primary schools may be suited for further schooling? Our post-primary schools contain numbers of children whose attitude to their education is covertly or openly hostile. Their place is in employment. Many secondary modern schools in Britain face a similar problem, but in a much graver form, as is shown by the report in your paper, headed ’"Thugs in the Schoolroom." of an English teacher’s letter to the ’"Daily Mirror.” It is easy to blame the schools for social phenomena. Indeed, an English director of prison administration says that his folk (the prisoners) worship nothing good because the teachers failed them. I refuse to believe this. It is time that some weeding out took place in our post-primary schools. —Yours, etc.. TAXPAYER. January 8, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27861, 9 January 1956, Page 7
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