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Letter: Lessons of history
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Sir: Richard Garner may think that Estelle Morris's proposal for
classroom assistants is a futuristic plan for the education of our
children (Report, 15 November), but anyone with a passing knowledge
of the history of education will not.
Her plan is merely a modification of the 19th-century "monitorial
system" under which older, brighter pupils took on the ...
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