Felix (Headmaster) Flashcards
1
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Felix and education- ‘I am thinking…’
A
‘league tables’
2
Q
Felix and education/ art and literature- ‘Your teaching…has…’
A
always seemed to me to be selfish…some cockeyed notion you have about culture’
3
Q
Felix and education- ‘A lottery?…’
A
‘I don’t like the sound of that, Irwin. I don’t want you to fuck up’
4
Q
Felix and sexuality- ‘Fuck the Renaissance…’
A
‘And fuck literature and Plato and Michelangelo and Oscar Wilde and all the other shrunken violets you people line up. This is a school and it isn’t normal’
5
Q
Felix and education- ‘Shall I tell you what is wrong with Hector…’
A
‘as a teacher? It isn’t that he doesn’t produce results. He does. But they are unpredictable and unquantifiable and in the current educational climate that is no use’
