4 OCTOBER 1975, page 4

Another Grierson?

From the Rt Hon. Lord George-Brown Sir: Turning this week — as is my habit — to your 'Economics and the City' page, my attention was unusually attracted to the second piece......

Extremists

Sir: A large responsibility for the mindless new extremism described by Patrick Cosgrave (September 20) can be attributed to the philistinism which has crept into our education......

Sir: So Often Have Politicians 'deplored' All That They Are

too timid to challenge, to denounce, or to arrest, that the word has become depreciated and is about to join the company of 'awful" and 'nice'. Unlike politicians, many people......

The Gold Yardstick

Sir: It may interest Nicholas Davenport, who regards the fall in the price of gold as "a deplorable and dangerous happening in the depressed world economy" (September 27), to......

Gifted Children

Sir: Educating the very gifted child with extremely high intelligence will always present problems, no matter how or where it is carried out. Nevertheless, such exceptional......

Educational Realism

Sir: Mr Stephen Evans in his letter on education (September 27) shows a lack of information about his subject in saying that Dr. Boyson is unrealistic, particularly in his......

Cosmology

From Dr Satya B. Sen Sir: Referring to the expansion-contraction theory of the universe of some cosmologists Tom Margerison in his short article 'Radio astronomy. The old laws......