“A child who has slept all night in a stuffy, overcrowded room, and then breakfasts on a cup of weak tea and a piece of bread, can hardly be expected to show a sharp, sustained interest in the abstractions of arithmetic, and the unrelated niceties of correct spelling. Punishment (or the threat of it) for this lack of interest is unlikely to bring the best out of him.” EducationPovertyHunger Book:To Sir, With Love Source: To Sir, With Love
“So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?” EducationLearningTeaching Book:To Sir, With Love Source: To Sir, With Love
“He further advised me to live like a man, with dignity and not let the colour of my skin cripple my spiritual growth or social consciousness. And he told me then that our shoutings against prejudice and discrimination would be empty and meaningless until, inside ourselves, we admitted no difference between men, any men, based on the colour of their skins.” RacismPrejudiceRacismoPreconceito Book:Paid Servant Source: Paid Servant