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Sir: So David Shaw thinks that respect for teachers is earned merely by the wearing of a smart "uniform" (report, 4 November), Gillian Shephard wants to re-introduce beating and John Major wants schools to indoctrinate children to an authoritarian "moral" agenda. Why don't we solve the problems of education by sending all our children to a Chinese prison?
TOM HARDY
Tolworth Girls' School
Surbiton, Surrey
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