Political views in classroom
Sir, — There is, unfortunately, growing evidence that more and more secondary school teachers are taking advantage of their power to influence the thinking of others by using the classroom situation as an opportunity to spread their political views. During this year, my third at secondary school, this “advertising” has become quite noticeable in the teachers’ choices of sources and subject material. For example, I have a history teacher whose Rightwing attitudes show up throughout the book he wrote and from which he teaches. On the other hand, an oppositely-minded English teacher’s more subtle blandishments became noticeable in the books we study (“Cry, the Beloved Country” for example). I do not argue with the right of these people to hold the views they do, but I do question the ethics of spreading propaganda in what is essentially a oneway argument. — Yours, etc.,
I. C. LEEMING. March 14, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34104, 17 March 1976, Page 20
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