Head:- We can learn from kids

THE younger generation have much to teach their elders, said Dover head teacher Sally Lees when she was the guest speaker this week at a meeting of Dover Rotary Club at the Ramada, Whitfield.

Mrs Lees, head of Dover Grammar School for Boys, entitled her talk "The Future Is Theirs" as she spoke of the tremendous privilege of working with the boys at the school. She spoke about the success of the school’s Young Enterprise team that had won the Kent final and was now going on to the regional final at Horsham.

Mrs Lees, mother of three girls in their early 20s, has worked in education for 30 years and questioned whether the old wisdom, traditionally passed on from one generation to the next, was of great value today for the younger generation.

She said young people today, with their knowledge of technology, could teach the older generation a thing or two.

She found many of the boys at her school had a great passion for learning and a thirst for knowledge. They had an idealism which the older generation must do nothing to quench.

She reported that, with the financial help of the old boys Old Pharosians’ Association and others, the school, after eight years, now had a cricket wicket again and it was a joy to see it being used.