[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. H. G. Wells's
charge against teachers in general and history and geography teachers in particular should be substantiated.
Would it not be possible for Mr. Wells, accompanied by six others persons, chosen by the British Association, or some other such responsible unbiassed society, to visit, with no previous warning whatever, 12 State-aided Grammar or Secondary schools, in any district, and there walk unannounced into the history and geography classes ? If Mr. Wells and his colleagues find the teaching as outrageous as he describes it, it is time for the Government, in the interests of the nation, to take action. If, however, he finds he spoke ignorantly and unadvisedly it is for him to make an apology to the teaching profession as whole-hearted and public as was his indictment.
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