Comments on 'Teacher Man'

The teachers in the group connected more with this book but there were one or two non-teachers who enjoyed it.

'Frank McCourt, an inspirational teacher.'
'The development of McCourt as a teacher over fifteen years is interesting. The reader follows his naive beginnings working out how to survive in the classroom to the over subscribed creative writing classes at Stuyvesant High.'
'Some of his ideas to encourage his students to write creatively were very imaginative.'
'An easy read with little structure to it.'
'For an English teacher his sentence structure was poor.'
'I can't help but think some of McCourt's stories are exaggerated.'
'Would this book have been published if the writer had not written Angela's Ashes first?'
'I could not warm to McCourt and found him an irritating character.'

Further Reading/Listening

Radio 4 Broadcast of a meeting between Philip Pullman and his old English teacher Miss Jones.

Recommended Reading

The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas by John Boyne