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Category: E.R. Braithwaite

E.R. Braithwaite

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

E.R. Braithwaite

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.

benevolent-racism, racism

E.R. Braithwaite

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.

E.R. Braithwaite

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

better-world, change, inspirational

E.R. Braithwaite

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

education, learning, teaching

E.R. Braithwaite

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.

motivational, teaching

E.R. Braithwaite

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

children, teaching

E.R. Braithwaite

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

education, learning, teaching

E.R. Braithwaite

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

children, teaching