Letter: The brass neck above the ivory parapet

Saturday 25 July 1992 23:02 BST

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FAY WELDON's reply to your Opinions question, 'Is it worth going to university?' (Real Life, 19 July), is offensive for those of us not fortunate enough to have had a university education, and typical of someone cosseted in her own cosy, superior, literary ex-university world.

She claims that 'the company of an educated person is far pleasanter than that of someone uneducated'. Although I attended only a secondary school, I do not consider myself to be 'uneducated'. And my company is more interesting (I'm not sure what she means by 'pleasanter') than a lot of people I know who attended university.

Jane Crossen

Knutsford, Cheshire

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