E.R. Braithwaite Quotes

Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.

It was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English.

Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …

Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.

The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.

You have taught them to think differently. That is how we beat the bigotry. Class by class. Year by Year

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?