The Old Boys Network: A Headmaster's Diaries 1972-1986
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1910198579 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marjorie M. Clark said Old Boys Forever!. Book looks excellent. This was purchased for someone else, but I have been intrigued by tidbits when I opened to look at it.
He died in December 2006. John Malcolm Rae was headmaster at Westminster School between 1970-86. He has also written books on education, including the best-selling Letters from School (1987) and five books for children. . He is author of The Custard Boys (1960)
His reputation as a great reformer was forged during his 16 years as headmaster of Westminster School, in the 1970s and early 1980s. And his candid account of that turbulent period – recorded at the time in handwritten diaries – seems as fresh and relevant today as it was back then. The diaries, which he finished editing just before he died aged 75 in 2006, chart his struggle to keep out illegal drugs and the impact of family breakdown on pupils. “Say what you believe and head up high” was his life-long personal code – the spirit of which is captured in this often shocking and unputdownable book.. Devious, rank-pulling parents are humorously dispatched. “These diaries reveal beneath the serious public persona of John Rae a schoolmaster who got a lot of fun from the antics and the wit of his boys an enjoyable read.” The Spectator “Rae 's writing is fresh, droll and poignant and the energy he displays here is prodigous.” Daily Telegraph “Gripping.” Evening Standard John Rae was one of the most charismatic and controversial figures in British education. Outspoken and humane, Rae believed in the right of
"It is a mark of John Rae's gifts as an observer of human behaviour, an analyst of power politics, and an urbane prose stylist that this memoir merits the attention of any reader." The Daily Telegraph