Thought for the Week: Enthusiasm

Ken Veitch reflects on enthusiasm and inspiration

by Ken Veitch 21st September 2018

A man of about forty, wearing a green tweed jacket, bustled into the room. Mr Peters, our new teacher of French, was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford who had been a wartime translator at Bletchley Park. He exuded positivity and a love of his subject. We would rush to read or buy any book that he recommended. We all did well in A levels and more than fifty years later I still have a love of all things French.