Teaching of history under attack yet again

I CONCUR with the academics from Mary Immaculate College Limerick and the students from Presentation College Cork (Letters, Sept 30) that dropping humanities from the school curriculum will have a detrimental impact on teacher education and the teaching of history in schools.

In my former life, as a literary tutor, I found that my students with weak literacy skills were very receptive to the teaching of history.

Indeed study of the subject improved their reading and writing skills; history motivated them.