James Hannah

So, I was think­ing about the small, unso­licited and unin­tended words of inspi­ra­tion that peo­ple have gifted me. See pre­vi­ous let­ter. Teach­ers, much like par­ents, are in the fir­ing line for every­thing. Any tiny inflec­tion or mis­placed com­ment might stay with a child, and fes­ter away for a life­time to come. In 1990, my Maths teacher read out the results …