From PHILIP HORRELL
In all the correspondence about the low numbers of scientists coming
from public schools, I feel that an important factor has been left out –
very few scientists are wealthy enough to send their children to expensive
private establishments. At my school, most boys are the sons of lawyers,
accountants or bankers. As they are likely to have inherited their parents’
ideas, they naturally find these areas more interesting. Indeed, even in
my class, where we all take double maths and physics, only one person has
a parent who is a physicist.
Philip Horrell London
