[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—In your issue of December 14th Mr. Howard wrote in a reassuring spirit on the subject of " The Position of Assistant- Masters in Public Schools" with regard to the Pension Scheme, and said all Public School Masters would be included. Without going into the claim of men who have served partly in one type of school and partly in another, the point in Mr. Howard's letter re quid pro quo seems unsatisfactory. Surely the pension is given to the Master and not to the school; therefore the quid pro quo should be satisfactory service as a qualified Master for thirty or required term of years, and the man's right to a pension should not be endangered by the Board of Education finding some fault with the school which is not within the power of the Assistant- Master to remedy. Freedom, justice, and liberty to Assistant- Masters demand that the " unit " should be the Master and not the school. Surely the pensions are granted by the Government in the national interest to ill qualified Masters for their life-long service in the cause of education, and not to secure some quid pro
quo for the Board of Education.—I am, Sir, he., A. A.
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