The Two Cultures
SIR,—Quoodle rightly points out Lord Snow's in- consistency in publicly advocating comprehensive schools while privately supporting (or going to sup- port) the No. I public school. I spent my early years in the Twenties at a tough village school where I mixed with children whom I was never going to encounter socially later on. I would not, however, agree with educators and psychologists who say this is a good thing. Admittedly. it taught me that there were two nations long before Lord Snow taught me about the two cultures, and that there was no such thing as proletarian culture long before I dipped into Trotsky. I feel, however, that these two social facts could have been acquired much more com- fortably at a later date from a weekly like the Spectator.
FINDLAY P. MURDOCH 139 Brownside Road, Cambuslang. Glasgow
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