Sir, A teaching graduate with a PhD or first-class degree is usually much less likely to appreciate the learning difficulties of the less able child than the teacher who has struggled to achieve a more modest qualification (letters, Jan 20).
Peter Bobbin
Hitchin, Herts
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Sir, Academic skills and teaching skills are different. Rather than demanding that our teachers have good grades, we should reward those teachers whose pupils get them.
Give a teacher a minimum wage, with a bonus calculated according to the numbers of all the different pass and fail grades obtained by his or her pupils.
Dale Jenkins
Cardiff