Sir, – The news that schoolchildren have been issued iPads instead of books (Home News, August 29th) should be received with mixed feelings, for with every technological gain comes a corresponding cultural loss.
For generations Irish pupils have defaced textbooks with illegible graffiti, scatalogical caricatures of their teachers, and questionable poetry. How on earth are today’s schoolchildren going to do any of those things? Or is there an app for that? – Yours, etc,