Letter: Cheesy education

Tuesday 04 November 1997 00:02 GMT

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Sir: In her admirable account of the merits of Summerhill school (28 October), Angela Neustatter complains that her education there "resembled a Gruyere cheese".

The same is true of education everywhere. The one distinctive lesson that everyone learns in conventional schools is how important it is to appear to know what you do not know.

DAVID GRIBBLE

Bristol

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