Letters extra: forget the point

17th August 2001, 1:00am

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Letters extra: forget the point

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If the majority of facts that are forced into our luckless children’s heads are lost and gone from memory soon after leaving school, what is the point in pressurised education? Where is the sense in learning for the sake of learning, if it all evaporates when school is over?

Neville Lewis
Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk

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