plain evasion of the answer. Won't you dot

the i's and give us at least one cause?..

A — Well, since you insist on cornering me, I divide the causes into those whose responsibility falls upon the school and those whose responsibility falls upon the parents. The average pupil swings back and forth between the parents and the school, and falls into what leads him inevitably to failure.

The school's responsibility lies in its failure to seek the general good in choosing the teacher. In its eyes all the educated are fit to teach, so it seeks out the cheapest among them so that its business may profit. And the cheap teacher, like everything cheap, fits the popular proverb you know. Yet the school ought to know that a man in whom the aptitude for teaching is truly present cannot be cheap, since he is expected to throw himself into his work with all his strength. In that case his material livelihood must be assured, so that it does not distract him from his duties.

The parents' responsibility lies in this chaos that rules home life. Parents have forgotten that edu-cation means giving the example, and that the day they took up the burden of raising children they accepted the cross of sacrifice; they must be a good example before their children, or else they corrupt them. Are there many parents in our society who sacrifice their amusements, or some part of them, for the sake of watching over their children? I leave the answer to the results of the examinations.

And Mr. Rushdi Ma'alouf says: The causes of failure are many, and among the most important of them, in my view, is that some

of the private schools do not have teachers of the level required for preparation for the baccalaureate.

That is because those schools would lose money if they paid the salaries of first-rate teachers; and if they raised their pupils' fees, enrollment would fall off.

Perhaps the best solution is for the government to undertake to

cover the deficit in those schools' budgets, so that it becomes possible for them to fulfill their pressing desire to choose compe-tent teachers.

"The Woman's Voice": We com-mend all this to the attention of those whom the matter concerns — efendim.

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