THE MANTLE OF POWER
Sir,-Your contributor to Auckland Notebook in the Spring Number of The Listener appears to think that teachers are a bad lot and that good-looking women-teachers should marry out as quickly as possible. But is G. leF. Y willing to do his share of minding the young when the teaching profession packs up as he so obviously desires? Some people, when bumped into by the backwards-walking young, don’t glare as the young teacher did in Auckland. They swear. Is swearing better than glaring, or is the person bumped into supposed to apologise, nowadays, to the boy? G.leF. Y. calls young teachers "boys" and "girls." Schoolboys he calls "men." Following this out logically, with the 20 years handicap which he admits to, he is a babe-in-arms. Is it really the teachers’ fault that he feels so bad, or does he need the all-seeing eye himself? The real implications of the incident he relates are missing from his account of
it
ERLE
ROSE
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 5
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165THE MANTLE OF POWER New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 5
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