Education Quotes

Question 1

Hector at the beginning of the play praising the boys for their A levels (page 4)

Answer 1

‘Noble and necessary thing. You have satisfied the examiners’

Question 2

A.E Housman quote used by Hector (page 5)

Answer 2

‘All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use’

Question 3

Headmaster’s new approach the education (page 8)

Answer 3

‘I’m thinking league tables. Open scholarships. Reports to the Governors’

Question 4

Headmaster’s metaphor to expresses the education system (page 11)

Answer 4

‘I am corseted by the cirriculum’

Question 5

Irwin’s anaphora on the competitiveness of education (page 19)

Answer 5

‘Think bored examiners. Think sixty, think a hundred and sixty papers even more competent’

Question 6

Irwin’s epiplexis to help the boys understand his way of teaching (page 25)

Answer 6

‘What has that got to do with it? What has that got to do with anything?’

Question 7

Irwin trying to teach the boys to look at history from different perspectives (page 35)

Answer 7

‘A question has a front door and a back door. Go in the back or better still, the side’

Question 8

Irwin changing the boys understanding of education (page 35)

Answer 8

‘It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so’

Question 9

Hector’s beliefs of education (page 48)

Answer 9

‘Education is the enemy of eduction’

Question 10

Hector in response to Irwin’s eduction style (page 49)

Answer 10

‘What happens after the exam? Life goes on’

Question 11

Irwin during the Holocaust Scene (page 74)

Answer 11

‘Distance yourselves’

Question 12

Hector during the holocaust scene (page 75)

Answer 12

‘I thought I was lining their minds with literary insulation’

Question 13

Hector at the end of the play (page 109)

Answer 13

‘Pass it on boys. That’s the game I wanted you to learn’