BLACK, IRENE (1932 - 2007) Headmistress. The unfortunate consequence of the modern teacher's tendency toward ingratiation and buffoonery is a generation dominated by the unbridled excesses of cretins. While this is obvious to any observer, we should be wary of indulging in mindless nostalgia for an age of indifference and brutality. Teachers, circumscribed by their own limitations, have always championed nonentity. Whatever the weapons at their disposal, tawse, indifference or withering rebuke, they have proved themselves the age-old enemies of promise. No gifted child should be subjected to a school environment. This has always been the case. While I rarely indulge in retrospection, the recent death of Mrs Black caused me to reflect on the injustices inflicted upon me under her headmistress-ship.

Had Mrs Black even attempted to comprehend the problems unique to clairvoyant children, my school career might have been entirely different. With reference to the guidelines supplied by the Gibson Institute (and binned in my presence), my fellow pupils might have been coached in their dealings with the special individual in their midst. On reaching adulthood, they might have remembered their assocation with Hamilton Coe with pride and affection. Instead, I suspect, the mention of my name might rouse the inconsolable hounds of conscience. See also SPINK, HEATHER

 

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