[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Has not the low opinion that Englishmen as a rule hold of education something to do with what you so aptly term the " disconsideration " of schoolmasters P When I was walking in North Germany in August, I fell in with a German of about fifty, whom I rightly guessed to be a Berlin merchant. On discovering that I was a schoolmaster, he said "I have no such lofty aim, as you have—to form men ; I am a merchant." Could one imagine a Bradford or Man- chester manufacturer uttering such a sentiment? Are not schoolmasters in their eyes men employed in keeping boys out of mischief, or at the best in teaching them "a little Latin and less Greek " ? I am free to confess that schoolmasters have been themi'elves often to blame for the mean opinion
held of their work,—I am, Sir, So., H. V. H.
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