A few teachers who may be recognised by all for the activity Remember

Mr. Chips in James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the very similar David Powlett-Jones in R.F. Delderfield's To serve them all my days are long-serving teachers in English public schools who served generations of schoolboys during times of social change.

Miss Jean Brodie in the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark is a complex and charismatic teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh. In 1930, she declares that her prime has begun and makes her pupils aware of drama, art and fascist beliefs.