History Boys - Education

Question 1

This is how Hector describes A Levels

Answer 1

Those longed-for emblems of conformity

Question 2

Scripts view on education

Answer 2

Love apart, it is the only education worth having

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

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

Irwin talking about Stalin

Answer 5

Find something, anything, to say in their defence

Question 6

Mrs Lintott presents this view of education

Answer 6

Properly organised facts

Question 7

This indicates the Headmaster’s shallow take on education

Answer 7

All bright but they need polish. Edge.

Question 8

Hector Quotes AE Housman

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Not good point, sir. True.

Question 10

Hector believes exams are….

Answer 10

The enemy of education

Question 11

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Hector never bothered with what he was educating these boys for