Headmaster Flashcards
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‘I am thinking league tables’
‘We are low in the league’
‘Get me scholarships, Irwin. Pull us up the table, and it is yours’
‘How are our young men doing? Are they ‘on stream’?’
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‘Clever…well taught…but a little, ordinaire? Think charm. Think polish’
‘But they need polish. Edge. Your job.’
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‘There is passion there…but not curriculum directed’
‘It’s not how much literature they know. What matters is how much they know about literature’
‘He does (produce results). But they are unpredictable and unquantifiable and in the current education climate that is no use…how do I quantify that (inspiration)? He has no notion of boundaries!’
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‘Fuck the Renaissance. And fuck literature and….all other shrunken violets you people line up. This is a school and it isn’t normal’
‘If I speak of Hector it is of enthusiasm shared, passion conveyed…he opened a deposit account in the bank of literature, and made you all shareholders in that wonderful world of words’
Exam success is really for the gratification of the school rather than the boys, and the Headmaster doesn’t have the boys’ best interests at heart or care about their personal aspirations
‘It’s not for the boys. It’s for the school’
