My father, Pete Medway, who has died aged 73, was a highly regarded English teacher, lecturer and academic. The recent publication he co-wrote, English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy (2014), marked the end of an influential career and a generous life.Born in Bradford to a customs officer, Robert, and a pharmacist, Margaret (nee Hancock), Pete attended Bradford grammar school, where he made original contributions to the school magazine, and, in Greek, played the lead in an Aristophanes play. At Christ Church, Oxford, he studied classics before switching to English, then in 1963 trained as a teacher at the Institute of Education in London, under the progressive influence of Harold Rosen. Continue reading...
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