13 APRIL 1934, Page 19

OVERPAID SCHOOLMASTERS

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si a,—The waywardness of one word in my letter which appeared in your columns last week resulted in the missing of an important point and the making. of a superfluous one. The word university-trained, which, by some means or other contrived to attach itself to my pseudonym, should have been found in its place before the word " schoolmaster " in the second paragraph. The point I wished to emphasize was that even the highest grade of remuneration paid to the teaching profession under the present scales is but slightly above that of the general clerical class of the Civil Service.-