THE EDITOR, Sir:
MANY OF our so-called intellectuals fail to point out that hungry children cannot absorb and maintain what is taught by the teacher.
The brain needs nourishment so as to grasp and analyse what is taught. A 'little' bush tea and two crackers before school is not enough. A political system that creates a government with attitudes that won't encourage investments so as to create jobs so that people can work and independently support their families and educate their children, is a failure.
When we have people living off food stamps, hustling by the street side, a Minister of Finance going all over the world to borrow other people's money to fund the budget, we have economic chaos.
The intellectual hypocrites see and know this, but fail to speak out as their nests are feathered by government paper and political contracts. By this means many of these hypocrites are able to send their children to university, while the poor people's children starve for lack of food and education.
I am, etc.,
ROBERT SOLOMON
HENRY
Spanish Town
