Mr Dew
I've mentioned him before, I think. He taught English, and I was lucky enough to get him for my GCSE years. Whilst we were nominally learning about how to critically compare 1984 with Brave New World, we learnt many other things: the man was eccentric, and an expert on many things. The composer Stanford, military history, art, engineering... he could wax lyrical on any subject with a decent amount of authority. He taught rowing and was one of the senior officers in our CCF, and devoted his all to the school. He was mocked by many due to his appearance and oddities, but most people remember him with fondness and respect. He died not long after I left, and there was a huge turnout at the school chapel for his funeral.

The incident that really makes me smile when I think of him, was when he got bored of Huxley and decided to tell us how to make low-grade opium instead, complete with diagrams on the blackboard. What a legend.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:31, 2 replies)

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this is not right, what kind of English teacher could bore of Huxley ?
(AndySpanners not working too hard on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 15:10, closed)

I think anyone would
if they were teaching it to several GCSE groups every year...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 16:29, closed)