Mr Crocker-harris is the language teacher at a school. He teaches Latin and also a Greek play. But he is perhaps a poor teacher. Taplow calls the Greek play rubbish because itis not taught well by Crocker-Harris. He has many negative things to say about his master. Crocker-Harris, he tells Frank, Is shrivelled up inside like a nut; he hates people to like him; he is hardly human; gives a vague answer to the boy about his result. But Taplow has a word of praise also for his teacher. He doesn’t beat the boys. He is not a sadist. He abides by the rules of the school and never declares the result before time. Still, all the boys in the class are scared to death of Crocker-Harris. Taplow finally admits that he likes Crocker-Harris spite of being scared of him.