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

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Sidney, 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.

 

“The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography”, Sidney Pointer

“But I had a great teacher in Nassau. His name was Mr. Fox. William Fox. We call him Bill. Mr Bill Fox,  and he was magical. I learned more from him than virtually anyone I knew.  I drew heavily on him as a model for my character in To Sir with Love” .

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