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ever taught, where the quality of teaching is extremely low

and where demands made on the teachers are excessive.

Material welfare is good but it is not enough, I have taught in an elementary school and am now a farmer concerned only with producing food for the body—but how much I commend the sad farce, of state ' education' to those who profess to be con- cerned with spiritual and mental welfare and the cause of true education. ' No lesson is so important to learn, and no habit is so important to acquire, as a right judgement and a delight in fine characters and noble actions '—quoted by Sir Richard Livingstone in Education for a World Adrift.—Yours faithfully,

JOAN GIBBS-SMITH Glebe Farm, Kirby Misperton, Mahon, York