Anthropologists
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Letter to the Editor TN your issue of June, there appears a letter on “Anthropologists,” written from Port Moresby over the signature “Educationalist of 20 Years’ Standing.”
This pseudonym is so near to being a description of myself that some of your readers who happen to know me person ally might well suppose me to be the writer. I should be obliged if you would allow me to disclaim authorship of this letter.
On the subject matter of the letter I
express no opinion, beyond suggesting that it would be a salutary piece of self discipline for anthropologists who wish to explore the field of native education to take charge of a native village school for a year first.
The trouble with so many writers on education is that they know a tremen dous lot about almost every subject under the sun, but very little about the young of Homo Sapiens r.
I am, etc.,
Percy Chatterton.
L.M.S., Port Moresby, 15/7/37.