3 FEBRUARY 1973, page 22

Blots On The White Paper

Sir: It would seem that your education correspondent, Rhodes Boyson (January 20), has had no experience at all of two-to-fiveyear-old children and their mothers. Possibly he is......

Sir: I Do Not Entirely Agree With Dr Boyson On

education (January 20). • The vital elements in education are the virtue and knowledge of the teacher and pupil, their natural kinship for one another, the degree to which they......

From Lt-commander H. N. Paulley Sir: The Prime Minister...

a widely held feeling on January 25, when he said that parents were entitled to a bigger 'say ' in the education of their children. But how is this to be achieved? The present......

From Mrs Wendy Ferguson Sir: Rhodes Boyson's Article...

the White Paper' (January 20) suggests that mothers send their children to nursery school (a) because of their own inadequacy to rear them, and (b) in order to go out to work.......

Library Issues

Sir: Mr Walker (Letters, January 20) was perhaps justified in having his tilt at Sir Alec Clegg's 17,000 per cent increase in the use of our county libraries but the dilemma in......

Sp.ionet Sso.ip For Pity's Sake

Sir: Simon Penn's article about transportation of live animals by land and sea, in appalling conditions involving great sufferirg to them, prompts me to ask for more information......