13 JANUARY 1973, page 25

Sir: Many Teachers And Others Interested In Education...

heartily with your gloomy description of the faults and failings in much of current educational practice (January 6). Certainly the fads and fancies of so-called progressive......

Sir. Whoever Wrote Your Leading Article On Education...

is naive. The situation as it actually exists is as complicated as the paradox of the lawyer who said, "All lawyers are liars." In brief, the English run Scotland at all levels......

Challenging Puzzle

From Lord °Wagon Sit. There are several mistakes in Tom Puzzle's comments (December 23, 1972) on my membership of the European Parliament. I was not nominated by the Prime......

Legal Advice

Sir: It is gratifying that Custos (' Legal advice,' December 23, 1972) takes such serious notice of a press statement from the national office of the Citizens' Advice Bureaux.......

The Chase

Sir: One can but wonder at the sentiments expressed in ' Skinflint's Diary,' in a periodical like The Spectator. Praise for Princess Anne for indulging in a cruelty condemned by......

From Dr Donald M. Bowers Sir: Dr John Linklater (january

6) is to be congratulated for his article on the collapse of the NHS, but his thesis could have been more easily demonstrated by an examination of the hospital scene. The basic......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

Unless he sticks to the condition events, the financial prospects for the two-mile chaser are not exactly rosy. Sandown Park recognised the need for a valuable handicap at the......