THE EDITOR, Sir:

A great deal of emphasis needs to be placed on the social aspect of education ? the inculcating of civilised values.

In this vein, I think the Government could do well in the recruiting of some new blood in the education system as they have done with the police force.

Hundreds of young Jamaicans are leaving school every year who can be considered as brutal, wild and untamed.

It should be the ultimate aim of education to produce a civilised human being, even if such a one may be deficient in literacy and numeracy skills. The work of law enforcement would be made much easier.

As the sociologist Emile Durkeim said, ?Education is the influence exercised by adult generations on those who are not yet ready for social life.?

That education I believe should aim to produce a civilised individual capable of taking his place in the global village of the 21st century and not the brute beast without reason who is bent on creating chaos and mayhem wherever he finds himself.

We ignore this aspect of education at our own peril.

I am, etc.,

P. LOGAN

Duncans, P.O. Trelawny