With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London Rick Braithwaite a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry unmotivated bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats suspicion and derision Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world. He will teach them to respect themselves and to call him Sir. He will open up vistas before them that they never knew existed. And over the course of a remarkable year he will touch the lives of his students in extraordinary ways-even as they in turn unexpectedly and profoundly touch his. Based on actual events in the author's life To Sir With Love is a powerfully moving story that celebrates courage commitment and vision and that inspired the classic film starring Sidney Poitier.
