Maths and segregation
Sir, — Mrs Clark’s attack on Elizabeth O’Keefe, for suggesting that girls can compete with boys at maths demonstrates (1) that youth do not have a monopoly on “arrogance and intemperance”; (2) that girls who compete with boys will be ■attacked by their own sex; (3) that often “what you know, that ain’t so” is more destructive than what you don’t know. Miss O’Keefe knows she has succeeded. Good for her. I hope . manymore girls will be encouraged to do the same and not be put dqwn by personal attacks. — Yours, etc., ALAN WILKINSON. August 13, 1980-
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