CONFORMITY
Sir, —So an eminent educationist expresses the need for parents to teach their children the value of conformity. By a lesser authority, this utterance would be laughable. It is too serious for levity. All parents should protest against the suppression in our schools of individual spirit and talents in any form. Group work and duty to the community—yes. Conformity—never. As for the abolition of bright shirts in the Square, what profound nonsense! Desecration of Cathedral square is a matter for the conscience of past generations, not future ones. The cults of conformity, mediocrity and the drawn blind are evidently still powerful among us.—Yours, etc., HERETIC. February 17, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27896, 18 February 1956, Page 5
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109CONFORMITY Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27896, 18 February 1956, Page 5
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