74 Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W .3. UNWILLINGLY TO SCHOOL
SIR,—Owing to parochial duties in preparation for Christmastide I have only now read the letters addressed to you which you print in your issue for December 17. I must challenge most emphatically the statement made in one of them that 'elementary education has never been the serious concern of educated people nor has it, with rare exceptions, attracted educated people to its service.' During the forty-two years of my ministry as curate and incumbent I have been in personal contact with teaching staffs of both church 'and state elementary schools and have, also, served on education committees. I can vouch for the very real concern that teachers have taken in thq education, in the fullest meaning of that term, of their scholars from infant school days upwards by men and women whom it would he an insult to describe as not educated. The same is true of every education committee on which I have served. I expect others have taken up this challenge on behalf of the teachers, but I write now in case the point of your corre- spondent has been overlooked among the many points which have been dealt with by your other correspondents.—Yours faithfully,
ARNOLD F. DAUNCEY
St. Barnabas's Vicarage, Rainbow Hill, Worcester
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