26 JUNE 1964, Page 7

Parents' Rights

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Mr. R. 1. Knight, Headmaster of Oundle, 'told parents at the annual speech day that he found it hard to divorce the idea of independence from that of fee-paying.'

Now Hoyle has found a quasi-star Which shines about in super-space And, self-illumined, from afar Looks down upon our mortal race, And if it bursts it wouldn't matter Except that we'd all be rather fattei.

The Public Schools witb lesser light Shine like the stars to keep us free, Those meaner beauties of the Knight, The price of freedom is the fee.

The Middle Classes, he discloses,

LoVe paying school-fees through their noses.