History Boys - Overall Flashcards
The headmasters superficiality is revealed when talking to Mrs Lintott (p8)
Factually tip-top as your boys always are, something more is required
Bond between Hector and boys is established (p6)
Child, I am your teacher. Whatever I do in this room is a token of my trust.
Irwin’s populist views on history are shown (p35)
History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.
Headmaster expresses his outrage at Hectors touching of the boys (p53)
A hand on a boy’s genitals at fifty miles an hour, and you call it nothing?
Hector is shown to be in despair (p65)
What made me piss my life away in this god-forsaken place
Hector may not be all that he seems (p4)
Studied eccentricity
Hector reveals himself to be more sensitive than Irwin in the holocaust scene (p70)
How can you teach the holocaust?
Irwin shows off his tactic to doing well in history exams (p74)
this is history. Distance yourself.
Irwin’s tactics are shown to be successful (p97)
Splendid news! Poster a scholarship, Dakin an exhibition and places for everyone else.
A quote supporting Bennett’s views on the randomness of history (p105)
And here history rattled over the points…
A quote that completely demonstrates Hector’s views on education. (p109)
Pass it on boys. That’s the game I wanted you to learn. Pass it on.
An important comment that shows Irwin’s cynical nature (p1)
Paradox works well and mists up the windows
Shows a knowledge is a means to an end for Irwin (p26)
Poetry is good up to a point. Adds flavour.
Shows how Hector loves literature (p56)
The best moment in reading is when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you thought special to you
Hector rejects Irwin’s exam technique (p83)
Why can they not just tell the truth?