'Magenta' Herdwick strives to enliven his multi-ethnic classes against the egalitarian, ie same for all, theory of socialist education current at the time, with its hostility to elitism and the grammar schools. He lives with his forsaken mother. Dad never came home from his last posting abroad.

'Magenta' Herdwick strives to enliven his multi-ethnic classes against the egalitarian, ie same for all, theory of socialist education current at the time, with its hostility to elitism and the grammar schools. He lives with his forsaken mother. Dad never came home from his last posting abroad.