From Ian Gammie
Further to the discussion about whether other countries should mimic free-thinking schools in Venezuela in letters by Jonathan Fanning (1 March, p 32) and Derek Williams (1 February, p 32). The conundrum is surely that the protesting students of San Cristóbal, some of whom have been shot down in the streets, are presumably the product of free-thinking education, while the government is run by economic boneheads who have failed to invest in the country’s long-term well-being, and preside over the highest inflation in South America and one of the highest murder rates in the world. Perhaps the free-thinking should have started with the politicians.
St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
