• Vital careers advice to six-year-old me | Brief letters

    Youthful ambition | Past lives of rough sleepers | Bread Sauce Preservation Society | Late Christmas card | Ski holiday ironyThere is nothing new about giving primary school children careers advice and motivation (Children as young as five in England target of new careers programme, 5 January). When I was six, my teacher told me that if I didn’t learn to spell properly I would never get a good job. My reply, that when working I would have a secretary and therefore not need to spell, was no

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