Educational standards
Sir: I wish to support the plea made by Marjorie Reed (Letters, March 1) for "something constructive" in your columns about education. Dr Rhodes Boyson, in articles over the past year, has demonstrated that he wants to have it all ways. For example, he will, in one article, denounce educational psychologists and college of education lecturers. and in another quote their findings whenever these suit his purpose. He makes out a case for classes of forty on the slenderest of evidence, with all the complacency of a man who hasn't taught a class of forty children for years. Can there be a single reader of your journal who wishes a child of his or her own, at infant age, to be taught with thirty-nine others?
A little humility, on the part of those who claim to stand for "high standards" would not be out of place.
R. Aft Towes
117 Bradstow Way, Broadstairs, Kent
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