[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In her letter in
your last issue, Lady Simon describes the " public schools " as excrescences on our national system of education, and considers it of almost no importance that the gulf between them and the grammar schools should be widened. But the pupils of the grammar schools have to compete with those of the " public schools " for University scholarships and exhibitions and in other public examina- tions, and it is impossible therefore to ignore the connexion between the two types of school. Hence the extreme import- ance of exercising the utmost vigilance to secure that the recommendations of the Report on staffing and curriculum in the grammar schools do not lower the intellectual standard which they have attained and which is the greatest educa- tional achievement of this century. The proposal to extend the system of too per cent. special places in all grammar schools is to be welcomed in this connexion among others, as it will improve the intellectual calibre of their pupils.— Cambridge.
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