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To the editor.
Of late we have read much about demands for "quality education” in our public schools. I have repeatedly challenged those using it to define the term “quality education” and, so far, have had no takers. Yet such is the hold in Rappahannock of this shibboleth or watchword they cannot define that they now apply it to any program, physical facility, or compensation schedule which is the subject of their organized and collective demands of the moment.
If improvement of academic and moral instruction of the young in our public schools happens to be benefited amidst all this clamor it is entirely fortuitous since demands for raising academic standards in our public schools are seldom, if even, among those of this clamorous group.
I now offer to this group a definition which is almost 400 years old and which has stood the test of time, in my opinion, since Sir Francis Bacon presented it in his famous essay on The Advancement of Learning: Quality Education is the inculcation of knowledge and virtue.
Sir Francis would have understood and approved well-equipped laboratories for instruction of high school students in the physical sci
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