When a woman refuses to sit next to him on the bus, Rick Braithwaite is saddened and angered by her prejudice. In post-war cosmopolitan London he had hoped for a more enlightened attitude, he begins his first teaching job in a tough East End school the reactions are the same. Slowly and painfully some of the barriers are broken down. He shames his pupils, wrestles with them, enlightens them and eventually comes to love them. To Sir, with Love is the true story of a dedicated teacher who turns hate into love, teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration for others - the story of a man's integrity winning through against all the odds
- ISBN10 0515105198
- ISBN13 9780515105193
- Publish Date 1 October 1990 (first published 1 December 1960)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 October 2023
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Jove Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 189
- Language English