Fragment of a carbon copy of a typed letter : place not specified, to [Lady Astor], [1937-1961?].

Discussing education in England; commenting on the school he has chosen for his own children saying it is a "...school we think best for them as long as our means will allow. It is, of course, exercising a privilege of money no less than those who send their boys to Eton. I don't blind myself to that fact. I think it unfair and I think it bad, viewing education as a National benefit. It doesn't alter the fact because they happen to be intelligent, and so are worthy, or I hope, will be worthy of the trouble taken by the teachers and by us. I think that all intelligent boys and girls should have the same chance; and so do you in your heart of hearts;" commenting on Council schools and their teachers and saying of the teachers "...many of them are not of the best. They arent[sic] the pick of the nation;" saying "But Education is a big question. We who are Communists cannot standardise the problem no more than can the Conservatives. Many fine minds have long been convinced that there is a hell of a lot wrong with the present methods...I believe that it can only come through Communism. With all your faults, you have a good heart, as I with all my faults, and they are many, have a good heart; but there are many who have not, though they be high in the plane of intelligence; and these are enemies."