No Room for Compromise
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From: R. J. 0. Meyer, P. J. Middleton, Sir Joshua Hassan, QC, H. D. Sills, Angus Maude, MP, Tibor Szatmtely, Victor S. Frank, Israel Shahak, Franya Godhy, P. H. Fearnley, The Earl of Dalkeith, MP, W. L. Greig, Richard Leighton Greene.
SIR,—In his article Mr Bruce Lockhart damages his cause by (1) stating that every schoolmaster would rather teach the intelligent sons of the poor than the stupid (i.e. the intellectually poor) sons of the rich, and (2) implying that co-education calls for contra- ception.
As regards (1), I know many schoolmasters who are voluntarily giving their all to the intellectually poor sons of the socially poor. Though I have not the courage and character to join them, I am very happy to try to help the intellectually poor and needy sons and daughters of the socially rich, so many of whom contribute generously to the funds needed to give the intellectually rich sons of the socially poor their chance of a public school education. To despise the stupid who urgently need our help, and to turn away the rich whose help we urgently need, seems to me to be the height of stupidity.
As regards (2), anyone who knows anything about both single sex and co-educational schools knows that it is in the former that collision mats arc most needed. When he writes of 'teenagers sated with sex' (and presumably protected by contraception) in the holidays and glad of a break in term-time he must, of course, be referring to boys and girls from single sex schools.
The educational world is slowly learning that there are no better guardians of virtue than girls who are able to meet boys in the ordinary way of school business—except, perhaps, boys who are able to meet
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