Goodbye Mr Chipps

The author James Hilton wrote Goodbye Mr Chips an endearing story about an English school teacher as a tribute to his own father who was the headmaster of a school. The novel tells the story of a much-beloved schoolteacher Mr. Chipping and his forty-three-year-long tenure at Brookfield school. He conquers his inability to connect with his students as well as his initial shyness when he marries Katherine a young woman whom he meets on holiday. Despite his own mediocre academic record he goes on to have an illustrious career as an inspiring educator and a strict.