John Rae (educator)

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John Rae is a British novelist and former headmaster of Taunton School and Westminster School. During the 1970s and early 1980s he became a prominent and oft-heard voice on educational matters in the British print and broadcast media, regarded by the standards of public school education as a singular and unconventional figure. He is a prolific writer on education, with work including "Letters to Parents" and "The Public School Revolution", in addition to his professional autobiography "Delusions of Grandeur". His 1961 novel, The Custard Boys, was adapted to make the 1963 film Reach for Glory, which won a United Nations Award, and again for a 1979 film under its original name, as well as being shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rees Memorial Prize. In 1983 he assisted Roland Joffe in the production of the film The Killing Fields, and in 1986 became head of the Laura Ashley Group.