Arithmetic Textbooks
Sir,—Words do not escape my typewriter to deny the need of children for practice to establish and maintain skills. Every word I hope, denies the truth of the claim of “G.H.D.” and "Practitioner" that piles of sums are proper food to extend a good brain Theirs is an alchemist's teaching which turns the gold of a budding mathematician's brain into the baser <but useful) metals of a clerks If “Practitioner” asks whether Book 6 extends my Form 2, he expects to be supplied with textbooks for all his class needs. Allow me to be as cheap and ask. “Do the English textbooks contain all his class teaching. the school journals all his class reading, the spelling books all his spelling’" If so, educational poverty reigns. Have “G.H.D,” “Practioner,” or "Mother of Average Children” ever even read the front cover of their abhorred book which proclaims in large letters: "Arithmetic Book 6”—not "Standard 6 Arithmetic Book?”—Yours, etc . HEADMASTER. June 7, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 3
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162Arithmetic Textbooks Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 3
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