The most moving story features its longest standing pupil Josh, 11, who has a history of appalling abuse and neglect: at the age of three he was scavenging food for his two younger brothers.
Some pointed to answers while standing over pupils' desks.
Two of Chopin's long-standing pupils, Karol Mikuli (1821 1897) and Georges Mathias, were themselves piano teachers and passed on details of his playing to their own students, some of whom (such as Raoul Koczalski) were to make recordings of his music.
Emphasis on old-fashioned discipline – strict uniform codes, and rules such as pupils standing up when teachers enter the classroom.
"Little things like insistence on uniform, pupils standing up when the teacher walks into the room are all important in giving structure to children's lives," he says.
Height was measured to the nearest 0.1 cm using a commercial stadiometer (Leicester Height Measure, Invicta Plastics, Oadby, UK) with the pupil standing barefoot, keeping shoulders in a relaxed position, arms hanging freely, and head aligned in Frankfort horizontal plane.
His pupils were standing at the edge of a plush living room, wine glasses in their hands, in poses decidedly less starched than Mr. Gore's language and demeanor.
But nothing yet looks like killing off the method tried and tested long before the millennium began: a teacher standing before a group of pupils and imparting wisdom by word of mouth.
The pupils were proud to be standing up for someone's human rights.
Mr Gove will hope that the rising quality of the general intake has a similar effect.Still, if England's pupils are to better their standing soon, lots of teachers already in the classroom will have to improve.
You are standing there with a class full of pupils chattering away.
