Educated Morons

Dear Sir,—Your page one article shows you to be ignorant of the New Zealand constitution and to have missed the main thing wrong with Mr. Kinsellas decision.

If the Education Department bans "Washday." the responsibility falls like an oven door on the Minister. The trouble is that it should have been none of the Department's business in the first place. Whether a certain book is to be used in the classroom should be for the teacher alone to decide. For a Government to make a blanket decision is ridiculous because it assumes that all children are the same in their reactions to it. Publications could be banned for much more dubious political reasons than those advanced by the Minister.

If Mr. Kinsella continues to treat teachers like morons he will have more trouble with recruitment. There just aren't sufficient educated morons.

Dave Wright