The annual parental unrest over selection for secondary education would soon evaporate if our schools were of equal excellence.

Parents would be quite content to send their children to local "community" schools knowing they would receive equally good education.

Whatever one may think of the immediate likelihood of such a situation, all sensible people should support schemes conducive to such an end.

Not only would it remove the annual anxiety but it would make significant social contributions to the development of a united and contented society.

This should take precedence over our concern about the size of the Gross Domestic Product, which may make us wealthier but not necessarily happier.

-RG Jenkins, Hove