Abolition of bursaries
Sir, — “Society has a right to expect a return on (human) capital” writes Stella Clark (March 31). Democracy as Stella Clark understands it appears to reduce people to mere commodities in whom society invests an education and then extracts its tangible pound of flesh measured, of course, by the tidiest of accounting principles. A society which requires such a selling of souls is a very spare society which has lost its spirit. If a society is truly viable, vital and charitable it is self-sus-taining to the extent that people will want to contribute to it in ways far richer than a mere return on investment capital. It is difficult to see what a society which has failed in its obligation to provide such conditions for its people has a right to expect, for it has effectively curtailed the means by which these contributions can be made. — Yours, etc., M. R. SCOTT. March 31, 1979.
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