Education spending
Sir, — it is a sad commentary on the quality and dedication of many of today’s teachers that at the annual meeting of the an almost unanimous vote supported stop-work action as a counter to the predicted trimming of the education vote. Apparently the only voice of reason, one emanating from Canterbury, was drowned in derision. It is time that teachers honestly examined their profession with a view to eliminating from it greed, gimmickry and sycophancy. It is time they realised that teaching is an art which demands personal qualities not possessed by all who take up the chalk. Above all, it is time they realised that massive spending on education bears little relation to the quality of the product. A good teacher can teach in a barn. A poor teacher will muff it in an electronic palace. — Yours, etc., GRAHAM RHIND. May 9, 1979.
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