Ten Of The Best

Richard Martin started teaching as a teenager, while waiting to take up his place at Oxford. Following a brief spell in industry after going down, he decided to return to teaching as his long-term career, in what turned out to be a varied array of schools. These ranged from a Quaker boarding school to the heights of Harrow and Highgate hills, and their respective schools, before returning to his Alma Mater, as Chaplain of Magdalen College School, Oxford.

The author recounts the ups and downs of his experiences in schools, with a mixture of humour and astute insight into the way such establishments were run and the changes that have since taken place, for better or worse.

The book is illustrated with copious photographs of academe at its former peak. 172 pages