REFERENCE A R Appleby’s letter on Latin no longer being taught in schools (The Press, April 18).

The education system I was brought up with was such that when you sat your qualifying exams the pupils who got A or B grade went to the academy.

A pass were taught German, French and Latin; B pass French; C, D and E grade went to the grammar school; C pass being taught French, but the poor D and E pass pupils were no considered good enough to be taught a foreign language and they were taught woodwork and metalwork, as obviously the education authorities at that time thought they would be more suitable to going into those type of industries.

Even at that young age I could not see the point in learning Latin. It is very unlikely there would be enough teachers out there with the capability of teaching it, let alone enough pupils who would be interested enough to want to learn it in this high-tech society that we live in.

I found A R Appleby’s letter very wordy and surely to start teaching Latin in schools again would be another example of education for the sake of it.

W Harrison, St Oswalds Road, York