December 2016

A TRIBUTE TO E.R., AND ALSO TO THE GREAT TEACHERS OF THE WORLD

Reading Time 1 minsSidney, Mr Fox, and the Paid Servant, was the title of E.R. Braithwaite’s novel published in 1962. In his The Measure of A Man , a spiritual autobiography, Sidney [Poitier] writes: “When I was a boy there was a schoolhouse, and it was one room. Sometimes we went and sometimes we didn’t, because we were in the fields most of the time . “I got to Nassau at ten and a half, and I quit school at twelve, so what I picked up between Cat [Cat island] and Nassau was just  just enough to read the basics.   “But I had… Read More »A TRIBUTE TO E.R., AND ALSO TO THE GREAT TEACHERS OF THE WORLD