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The Most Honoured Profession by Julian Simpole. The trials besetting novice teacher Bob Waley are a distillation of possible events illustrating the problems likely to arise in a large educational establishment such as a comprehensive school, especially one whose hierarchy is dominated by an insecure bigot, as here, but the…
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Julian Simpole is an experienced teacher who worked in a Brighton school which blended talented individual pupils with some who seemed psychopathic contenders for mass murder.
The bigoted and tyrannical Headmaster himself seems hardly more civilised than his more psychotic pupils, and the novice practitioner of the pedagogic arts is buffeted from all sides as he falls in love with a girl he is convinced is a pre-ordained legacy from a previous existence.
Is this book an exposé of early 1980s Stakhanovite teaching, or a nostalgic reminder of comparatively idyllic school life before the current metropolitan street plague of knife-wielding…
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