Many novels for adults and children feature teachers as prominent characters. In fiction, they are usually there to inspire, motivate, support and, occasionally scare the living daylights out of ...

A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two world wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches ...

Maggie Smith won her one and only Oscar for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Watching the film after her death was a mistake. The Oscar winning performance and the film have aged rather awkwardly.