To Sir, With Love

Recommended by Neil Gaiman, and 1 others. See all reviews

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This classic schoolroom drama of a black teacher in London's tough East End who triumphs over bigotry and ignorance to change the lives of his students forever was hailed by the "New York Times" as "a book that the reader devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all"
With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his...
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Neil Gaiman I read the book as a child, and it was hugely influential on the way I thought about race from that point on. I was disappointed by the film. And only now I find out about the author and the life. https://t.co/zaKEVcPhez (Source)


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