History Boys - Education

Question 1

Hector Quotes AE Housman

Answer 1

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

Question 2

This stresses Irwin’s view on the need for originality in exams

Answer 2

You can write down, rudge, that ‘I must not write down every word that teacher says’

Question 3

This indicates the Headmaster’s shallow take on education

Answer 3

All bright but they need polish. Edge.

Question 4

Irwin’s view on education contrasts Hectors

Answer 4

Education isn’t something for when they’re old and gr y and sitting by the fire. It’s for now.

Question 5

Scripts view on education

Answer 5

Love apart, it is the only education worth having

Question 6

A quote from Lockwood, promoting Irwin’s theory of education

Answer 6

Everybody will do that. That’s the stock answer, sir…

Question 7

Shows Scripps anger towards Irwin’s teaching of the holocaust.

Answer 7

Not good point, sir. True.

Question 8

Irwin talking about Stalin

Answer 8

Find something, anything, to say in their defence

Question 9

Hector believes exams are….

Answer 9

The enemy of education

Question 10

Mrs Lintott presents this view of education

Answer 10

Properly organised facts

Question 11

Mrs Lintott tells us about how little Hector cared for the boys proper education

Answer 11

Hector never bothered with what he was educating these boys for

Question 12

This is how Hector describes A Levels

Answer 12

Those longed-for emblems of conformity