11 FEBRUARY 2006, Page 19

Educate, don’t brainwash

From Paul Phillips Sir: Rod Liddle (‘Brains not included’, 4 February) is right to say that you cannot force people to be infinitely ‘inclusive’. We have to sweep all this nonsense aside and produce a generation of teachers who understand that inclusivity, non-racism etc., will be the result of a well-educated society, and that education, primarily, is about learning to read and write, skills which any employer can tell you are on the wane.

Education civilises; brainwashing with politically correct jargon does not.

Paul Phillips

London E3