Letters: `Narrow' exam focus
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: I fear that with so much emphasis being put on exam success in schools we shall produce a generation of children who are trained to pass exams rather than educated.
The two things are different and we shall learn in time and to our cost that the latter is preferable.
I also fear that with the emphasis on numeracy and literacy we shall produce a generation that is highly numerate and literate, but has no soul because they have been starved of music and fine art.
The Reverend MIKE BOSSINGHAM
King's Lynn,
Norfolk
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