I have a great admiration for the extra- ordinarily good
work being done by teachers as a body, and am all in favour of salaries commensurate with their exacting job, but I feel that all sides of the question should be considered when comparison is made with workers in other spheres.—Yours faithfully,
PERPLEXED
Sia,—The spectacle of the grammar school masters rationalising themselves into a higher salary than their colleagues in primary schools, who lay the foundations upon which they build, is a very sad one. And who in education's name informed these • new Pharisees that their skill was of a higher order, or of more value to the community, than that of the primary school teachers work- ing all too often in crowded squalor ?—Yours faithfully,
TREVOR PREEN
Dunraven LCC Secondary School, S.W.16 SIR,—All honour and thanks to Sir Compton Mackenzie for his championship of the teaching profession ! Professional men and women, whether of the Church, the Law, Medicine, or Teaching, do not indeed strike; but that is all the more reason why they should be given fair treatment by the nation they serve, With a first-class degree, and some practical experience, 1 once taught Latin in the University of Liverpool. My salary was £150 a year.
This indicates the esteem in which the " Cinderella of the Professions " was held by a community of wealthy businessmen fifty years ago.
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