Young Master Robert Davis-Balderson (Letters, March 10) would do well to think again before he criticises his headmaster.

Did not that very headmaster bring him the ability to criticise him? A pupil is taught by a teacher. The pupil goes on to be a professor. Whose is the credit?

Incidentally, young Mr Robert, I am not a teacher - far from it - but am of the age to remember the Second World War.

I was born just before it, suffered the bombs, had my education interrupted and was torn from my apprenticeship and the bosom of my family. I did not have implanted thoughts of suing.

Will you survive through the will to exist and go on as I did and many more like me? You are obviously a thinking person.

Give credit to where it came from. You would appear to suffer from arrogance.

I have no problem with that - if it is based upon knowledge or experience, or both. Until then, do not slag off your mentors.

-Colin E Branch-Parker, Central Avenue, Telscombe Cliff