Sir, – Kevin T Ryan (December 14th) states, "Saying arts graduates don't need maths is like saying engineers don't need English." Frankly, I don't want to walk over a bridge hand in hand with its designing engineer while reciting Gerald Manley Hopkins's Windhover. Is it the case that it doesn't matter whether a bridge wobbles as long as its poetry is pure?
Let engineers build bridges and let poets write poetry and never the twain shall meet. Free the sciences from the tyranny of higher English and free the arts from the tyranny of higher maths. Then the teachers can really start teaching decent literature and decent maths. – Yours, etc,
ROBERT IRWIN,
Limerick.