The Secret Teacher: dispatches from the classroom

"I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them 'The Waste Land'! I will be the best teacher who has ever lived!" Or so 'The Secret Teacher' thinks. On his first day at an inner-city state school, he gets nuked. Why are half his class named after cars? Is the school really run by the faceless 'Luminati'? How do you stop a child doing something unspeakable with a Pritt Stick? Made to cut his teeth on the most challenging class in the school, 'The Secret Teacher' grapples with the complicated questions of how to teach, and how we learn -- and how little he actually knows.