Interesting enough to keep me reading but in the end...meh. It could be that this is simply not my preferred genre or it may be that this book, written in the 1960s, is dated and I don't have the correct cultural/historical perspective from which to judge its social commentary.

Summary: An eccentric educator secures a post as headmistress at a village girls school and starts a program of sweeping changes in curriculum. Meanwhile the town's politicians are planning to institute their own version of educational reform. Conflict ensues. ( )