The History Boys Flashcards
Lintott on being a teacher
‘One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them’
Posner on his life
‘I’m a Jew I’m small I’m homosexual And I live in Sheffield I’m fucked’
Posner about his choices
‘All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left’
Posner too young to ride Hector’s motorbike
‘You don’t fit the bill’
Hector on life long learning
‘You give them an education. I give them the wherewithal to resist it’
Irwin’s new teaching styles
‘It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so’
Scripps agreeing with Hector’s teaching styles
‘Love apart, it is the only education worth having’
Life long learning
‘Pass it on, boys. That’s the game I wanted you to learn’
Mrs Lintott on the oppression women have to face
‘History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men’
Mrs Lintott feeling excluded
‘my gender some sort of safe guard against the onward transmission of information’
Women are predicable
‘I am what men would call a safe pair of hands’
Posner on his sexuality
‘I think I may be homosexual ‘
Dakin - link between sex and history
‘I tell you, history is fucking’
Rudge’s lack of confidence
‘I’m shit at all of this. Sorry’
Scripps on christianity
‘it’s time consuming, you have no idea’
