Letter: In Brief

Sir: Richard Guise (letter, 10 July) suggests that people acquire their morality simply by observation and experience. Of whom? Their peers? In the early 1960s, pupils complained to me that they felt under constant pressure from the media to the effect that unless they engaged in pre- marital sex they were missing out. It was after all, so the media advised, what their peers were up to. Apart from the first of the Ten Commandments, which of the others would Richard Guise dispense with?

NORMAN WEBB

Halifax, West Yorkshire