(1) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(2) He would walk into the room and say, ‘I like this and that.’ It was a team effort, but definitely he was the headmaster.” Nautical but nice: Ralph Lauren unveils latest collection in New York Read more In the early 60s, Lauren worked for the Manhattan men’s outfitter Brooks Brothers behind the tie counter.
(3) Consequently, there isn't a week that goes by without Delingpole causing some sort of kerfuffle, then running away laughing like a naughty boy who has just blown off through the headmaster's letterbox.
(4) The headmaster of his Buckinghamshire grammar school once described Shayler as "a born rebel who sails close to the wind".
(5) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
(6) The first was delivered by Tim Hands , the headmaster of Magdalen College school since 2008, and given to mark Hands's elevation to chairmanship of the Headmasters and Mistresses Conference , which represents the prosperous elite of Britain's independent schools, including Eton and Roedean.
(7) Alec O’Connell, headmaster of Scotch College, where Mo went to school, said the “catastrophe was a tragedy of the highest order”.
(8) The real value of spending will be eroded over the next parliament.” Peter Kent, a serving headmaster and president of the Association of School and College Leaders, said school leaders shared the prime minister’s commitment to raising standards, “but we’ve got to have the resources to provide the quality of education he is talking about.
(9) Lindsay Roy, headmaster at Brown's old school, elected MP with increased share of vote.
(10) Lord Justice Leveson joined in, like the headmaster walking in on a rowdy classroom.
(11) He detested Downside, the Benedictine public school, quaintly claiming that the headmaster had "set himself up in opposition to me".
(12) Lawrence Stone was born in Epsom, and educated at Charterhouse, where the headmaster, Sir Robert Birley, subsequently headmaster of Eton and then professor of social science at the City University, London, was a strong influence.
(13) After furious lobbying from the public schools (the Headmasters' Conference was established to counter this threat), the endowed schools bill was completely emasculated, the only provision that remained was competitive exams, which only helped to entrench their social and financial exclusivity.
(14) In 2009 Niall Nelson, headmaster while Vahey was at JIS, gave him a reference for a job at Southbank international school in London.
(15) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
(16) She said she told senior administrators, including the headmaster, about the incident.
(17) On Wednesday, a letter to parents from headmaster John McIntosh and chairman of governors Father Ignatius Harrison said money was needed because government funding changes had left the Roman Catholic comprehensive with a £250,000 deficit.
(18) "In this time of national crisis, it is incumbent on us all to support our government," his headmaster writes.
(19) Sometimes we’ve had managers in the past who have ruled like a headmaster, being a little bit too strict.
(20) Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian Retired headmaster and local historian Salem Ould Elhadje says no one knows where Kankou Moussa – the “king of kings” as he is known in Mali – established his capital, or even if he had one.
Schoolmaster
Definition:
(n.) The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
(n.) One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(2) Chris Keates, the general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: “Had the review body not been constrained by the arbitrary pay cap imposed by the government, there is no doubt that it would have been recommending a pay uplift higher than 1% for teachers.” Kevin Courtney, acting general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said it was “shameful” that Morgan had failed to address the STRB’s concerns over staff shortages.
(3) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said: "It's what lies behind the figures, rather than the figures themselves, which should be the focus of attention.
(4) In another age, he might have become a schoolmaster or a colonial civil servant.
(5) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
(6) For 10 years, Rolfe was a provincial schoolmaster and would-be Roman Catholic priest.
(7) He contributed to two more Granada anthologies, Nightingale's Boys (1975) exploring an old schoolmaster's reunion with a succession of former pupils, and Red Letter Day (1976), the challenge of which title provoked an incestuous comic masterpiece from Rosenthal, Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, in the same year.
(8) Graham Chapman recalled Davies as "not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster".
(9) His schoolmaster's voice, formal and clipped, softens at last into something approaching bemusement.
(10) To lecture China like a schoolmaster and with a sense of superiority is not acceptable.
(11) With his father standing on the steps in his corner, clapping impatiently like a schoolmaster, Eubank swished air way too often in the first five rounds.
(12) Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, couches her remarks in broad political terms – she's due to have her first official meeting with Wilshaw later this week.
(13) "I'm one of those people who was told by schoolmasters that he liked the sound of his own voice," he has said.
(14) A schoolmasterly, sometimes even hectoring, campaigner known as Sascha in reference to his Russian roots, he led the Greens from 1997 to 2008, turning the party into the country’s fourth biggest political force and stepping down only after elections in which it lost votes for the first time in a decade.
(15) After Makerere University, in Kampala, he taught for three years, admitting, later in life, that he was a schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident.
(16) If it fails to do so, the NUT will proceed with its ballot and – based on the combative mood in Harrogate – go ahead even without support from its fellow teaching trade union, the more moderate NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).