11 MAY 1944, Page 14

SIR,—I see that the Rev. W. E. Wynne ventures the

opinion that "without Latin and Greek no European is educated." I would also venture the opinion that this is quite an out-moded concept belonging to the eighteenth century: In the twentieth century, an educated man must have a work- ing knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology, instead of Latin and Greek, for Virgil and Horace, Homer and Plato can be read in translation ; but science requires far greater mental development than an acquaint-