SIR,—In your issue of November 19th appeared a letter from
" Scholas- ticus," which will find support, though possibly in modified form, from 75 per cent, of teachers. However much the general public, including such personages as Directors of Education and Governing bodies, may believe in the " fine spirit between head and assistant staff " and the "great interest of the Governors," of which so much is made on speech days, anyone acquainted with the actual working knows how often the head is a dictator of a very absolute type, how the Governors have little or no contact with the school and therefore will inevitably see problems through the headmaster's eyes, and how Governors are themselves so often drawn from that class of people, who do not send their children to State schools. Is this bad practice yet another example of English hypocrisy paying lip service to democratic principles or is it just lack of thought? For obvious reasons I must in this case remain anonymous.
CLASSICS.
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